David Gunnell, Duleeka Knipe, Shu‐Sen Chang, Melissa Pearson et al.
BACKGROUND: Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14-20% of suicides worldwide. Regulation aimed at restricting access to pesticides or banning highly hazardous pesticides is one approach to reducing these deaths. We systematically reviewed the evidence of the effectiveness of pesticide regulation i...
Ayanthi Karunarathne, David Gunnell, Flemming Konradsen, Michael Eddleston
Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly hazardous pesticides such as parathion and endrin into poor rural communities that were totally unequipped to store or use them safely. Pesticid...
Vasundhara Verma, Sujat Paul, Aniruddha Ghose, Michael Eddleston et al.
OBJECTIVES: Approximately 10 000 people die from suicide annually in Bangladesh, many from pesticide poisoning. We aimed to estimate financial costs to patients and health services of treating patients with self-poisoning. METHODS: Data on direct costs to families, sources of funds for treatment and...
Tania Dræbel, Kristian Larsen, E Petterson, Flemming Konradsen