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Pesticide Use, Perceived Health Risks and Management in Ethiopia and in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis

Pesticides play a very important role for ensuring food security and economic growth but their use can cause harmful effects to human health and to the environment. The study aimed to investigate the level of knowledge, health risk perceptions, and experiences on the practice of pesticide use and ma...

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Autores principales: Tessema, Roba Argaw, Nagy, Károly, Ádám, Balázs
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639728
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910431
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description Pesticides play a very important role for ensuring food security and economic growth but their use can cause harmful effects to human health and to the environment. The study aimed to investigate the level of knowledge, health risk perceptions, and experiences on the practice of pesticide use and management among extension officers in Ethiopia and plant doctors in Hungary. A questionnaire survey among 326 officers was conducted in the two study areas and data were analyzed by ordinal logistic regression. According to the findings, Hungarian officers had much better knowledge of pesticide products (92%), and less frequently experienced pesticide poisoning among applicators (7%) than the Ethiopians (66% and 41%, respectively). Hungarian officers perceived less health risk of pesticide use (AOR = 0.46, 95%, Cl: 0.27–0.80), were ten times more likely to deem the pesticide management system effective (AOR = 10.23, 95%, Cl: 5.68–18.46) and were nine times more likely to report that applicators used personal protective equipment (AOR = 8.95, 95%, Cl: 4.94–16.28). A significant proportion of officers from both countries reported inappropriate methods of pesticide residue disposal. These observations point out that the situation of pesticide use and knowledge and management of pesticide products is definitely better in Hungary; nevertheless, the issue continues to need more attention in both settings.
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spelling pubmed-85081262021-10-13 Pesticide Use, Perceived Health Risks and Management in Ethiopia and in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis Tessema, Roba Argaw Nagy, Károly Ádám, Balázs Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Pesticides play a very important role for ensuring food security and economic growth but their use can cause harmful effects to human health and to the environment. The study aimed to investigate the level of knowledge, health risk perceptions, and experiences on the practice of pesticide use and management among extension officers in Ethiopia and plant doctors in Hungary. A questionnaire survey among 326 officers was conducted in the two study areas and data were analyzed by ordinal logistic regression. According to the findings, Hungarian officers had much better knowledge of pesticide products (92%), and less frequently experienced pesticide poisoning among applicators (7%) than the Ethiopians (66% and 41%, respectively). Hungarian officers perceived less health risk of pesticide use (AOR = 0.46, 95%, Cl: 0.27–0.80), were ten times more likely to deem the pesticide management system effective (AOR = 10.23, 95%, Cl: 5.68–18.46) and were nine times more likely to report that applicators used personal protective equipment (AOR = 8.95, 95%, Cl: 4.94–16.28). A significant proportion of officers from both countries reported inappropriate methods of pesticide residue disposal. These observations point out that the situation of pesticide use and knowledge and management of pesticide products is definitely better in Hungary; nevertheless, the issue continues to need more attention in both settings. MDPI 2021-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8508126/ /pubmed/34639728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910431 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full Pesticide Use, Perceived Health Risks and Management in Ethiopia and in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis
title_fullStr Pesticide Use, Perceived Health Risks and Management in Ethiopia and in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Pesticide Use, Perceived Health Risks and Management in Ethiopia and in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis
title_short Pesticide Use, Perceived Health Risks and Management in Ethiopia and in Hungary: A Comparative Analysis
title_sort pesticide use, perceived health risks and management in ethiopia and in hungary: a comparative analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8508126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639728
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910431
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