Related Factors in Outbreak of Health Disturbance from Pesticides in Farmers.
10.2185/jjrm.41.951
- VernacularTitle:農業従事者における農薬による健康障害発生の関与因子に関する考察
- Author:
Tadako UEDA
;
Atsushi UEDA
;
Kohji AOYAMA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1992;41(4):951-959
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
A questionnaire survey was conducted to clarify the actual states of pesticide poisoning (disorders) and its related factors amang 178 male and 232 female farmers.
The results were as follows.
1) Of the subjects 30.7% complained of some health disturbance from pesticides, without significant difference in prevalence between males and females.
2) The most comman symptom was skin hazard (39.7%), followed by nausea (34.9%) and headache (32.5%).
3) Captafol (21.4%) and methomyl (12.7%), which are contained in common pesticides, were recognized as the cause of poisoning.
4) The highest prevalence of health disturbance from pesticides were seen in [orange only] growers (72.7%) among mixed crop groups, followed by [rice+ orange] producers (71.4%), and [rice+ sugar cane +sweet potato] cultivators (55.9%). These higher prevalence groups were also estimated to be the users of the higher amount of pesticide.
5) Significant coefficient correlations were seen between the prevalence of health disturbance from pesticides and the duration and yearly times of pesticide spraying and daily spraying hours.
6) A relatively larger proportion of farmers has a knowledge about pesticide poisonig. However a few of them take effective protective measures at pesticide handling.
The reverse correlation was seen between the prevalence of health disturbance from pesticides and the degree of reliance on effectiveness of pesticides.
The present study indicates that more effective education for safty use of pesticides to both producers and users, and development of non-pesticide use agriculture are essential to protect agricultural workers from health distubance from pesticides.
