Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh-suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pesticide self-poisoning is a major problem in Bangladesh. Over the past 20-years, the Bangladesh government has introduced pesticide legislation and banned highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agricultural use. We aimed to assess the impacts of pesticide bans on suicide and on agricultural production.

Methods

We obtained data on unnatural deaths from the Statistics Division of Bangladesh Police, and used negative binomial regression to quantify changes in pesticide suicides and unnatural deaths following removal of WHO Class I toxicity HHPs from agriculture in 2000. We assessed contemporaneous trends in other risk factors, pesticide usage and agricultural production in Bangladesh from 1996 to 2014.

Results

Mortality in hospital from pesticide poisoning

SUBMITTER: Chowdhury FR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5837375 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature