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Policymaking ‘under the radar’: a case study of pesticide regulation to prevent intentional poisoning in Sri Lanka
Background Suicide in Sri Lanka is a major public health problem and in 1995 the country had one of the highest rates of suicide worldwide. Since then reductions in overall suicide rates have been largely attributed to efforts to regulate a range of pesticides. The evolution, context, events and imp...
Autores principales: | Pearson, Melissa, Zwi, Anthony B, Buckley, Nicholas A, Manuweera, Gamini, Fernando, Ravindra, Dawson, Andrew H, McDuie-Ra, Duncan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24362640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czt096 |
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