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Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study
BACKGROUND: Paraquat self-poisonings constitute a significant contributor to the global burden of suicide. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between social and economic variables with the incidence of self-poisoning with Paraquat in the northeast of Colombia. METHODS: Records of 154 cases of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32220225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08510-1 |
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author | Buendía, Jefferson Antonio Restrepo Chavarriaga, Gabriel Jaime Zuluaga, Andres F. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Paraquat self-poisonings constitute a significant contributor to the global burden of suicide. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between social and economic variables with the incidence of self-poisoning with Paraquat in the northeast of Colombia. METHODS: Records of 154 cases of self-poisoning with Paraquat and several socio-economic variables of six regions of northeast of Colombia were analyzed. RESULTS: Most of the cases were mestizos, farmworkers, between 20 and 29 years, with intentional exposure using the oral route. Multivariate analyses revealed significant associations among the incidence of self-poisoning with PQ with the ecological factors such as poverty greater than 30% (IRR 15.9 IC95% 5.56–44.72), land Gini index < 0.7 (IRR 7.11 IC95% 3.58–14.12), private health insurance < 40% (IRR 3.39 IC95% 1.30–8.82) and planted area > 10% (IRR 2.47 IC95% 1.60–3.80). CONCLUSION: There is a relationship between ecological factors and, as such, this study opens the way to further developments in the field. |
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spelling | pubmed-70998072020-03-30 Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study Buendía, Jefferson Antonio Restrepo Chavarriaga, Gabriel Jaime Zuluaga, Andres F. BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Paraquat self-poisonings constitute a significant contributor to the global burden of suicide. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between social and economic variables with the incidence of self-poisoning with Paraquat in the northeast of Colombia. METHODS: Records of 154 cases of self-poisoning with Paraquat and several socio-economic variables of six regions of northeast of Colombia were analyzed. RESULTS: Most of the cases were mestizos, farmworkers, between 20 and 29 years, with intentional exposure using the oral route. Multivariate analyses revealed significant associations among the incidence of self-poisoning with PQ with the ecological factors such as poverty greater than 30% (IRR 15.9 IC95% 5.56–44.72), land Gini index < 0.7 (IRR 7.11 IC95% 3.58–14.12), private health insurance < 40% (IRR 3.39 IC95% 1.30–8.82) and planted area > 10% (IRR 2.47 IC95% 1.60–3.80). CONCLUSION: There is a relationship between ecological factors and, as such, this study opens the way to further developments in the field. BioMed Central 2020-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7099807/ /pubmed/32220225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08510-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Buendía, Jefferson Antonio Restrepo Chavarriaga, Gabriel Jaime Zuluaga, Andres F. Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
title | Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
title_full | Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
title_fullStr | Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
title_full_unstemmed | Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
title_short | Social and economic variables related with Paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
title_sort | social and economic variables related with paraquat self-poisoning: an ecological study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32220225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08510-1 |
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