ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2014
Suicide mortality among agricultural workers in a region with intensive tobacco farming and use of pesticides in Brazil.
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- Factors Associated with Suicidal Behavior in Farmers: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Evidence on Human Exposure to Pesticides and the Occurrence of Health Hazards in the Brazilian Population: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in public health · 2021Pooled it
- Trends in method-specific suicide in Brazil from 2000 to 2017.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate whether suicide risk among agricultural workers is higher in regions with heavier pesticide use and/or presence of tobacco farming.
methodsSuicide mortality data were gathered from residents of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Agricultural census data were used to arrange and classify Alagoas cities into distribution groups on the basis of variables concerning pesticide use and/or tobacco farming. Mortality odds ratio calculations were then used to compare suicide risk among agricultural and nonagricultural workers in different groups.
resultsSuicide risk was higher among agricultural workers than among nonagricultural workers, elevated in regions that used more pesticides, and greatest in regions that produced more tobacco.
conclusionsThis is one of the first studies of its kind to suggest that combined effects of pesticide and tobacco exposure may be linked to higher suicide risk among agricultural workers.
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