2006
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.020834
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Deaths from pesticide poisoning: a global response

Abstract: Self-poisoning with pesticides accounts for about a third of all suicides worldwide. To tackle this problem, the World Health Organization announced a global public health initiative in the second half of 2005. Planned approaches were to range from government regulatory action to the development of new treatments for pesticide poisoning. With broad-based support, this strategy should have a major impact on the global burden of suicide.

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“…The compound was shown to be dangerous to both workers applying the herbicide and individuals later exposed to contaminated areas. In developing countries, intentional and accidental poisoning with herbicides represents a significant public health threat, accounting for untold numbers of accidental deaths and up to one-third of all suicides worldwide [2]. Unlike many other herbicides, the mortality rate following acute PQ poisoning is very high; and emergency treatment is often ineffective [3].…”
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“…The compound was shown to be dangerous to both workers applying the herbicide and individuals later exposed to contaminated areas. In developing countries, intentional and accidental poisoning with herbicides represents a significant public health threat, accounting for untold numbers of accidental deaths and up to one-third of all suicides worldwide [2]. Unlike many other herbicides, the mortality rate following acute PQ poisoning is very high; and emergency treatment is often ineffective [3].…”
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“…It is considered that one third of global suicides are carried out with pesticides, a figure in excess of 250,000. This is a far larger annual death toll than all of the victims of the world's war and terrorism combined (Bertolote et al 2006). …”
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“…Las intoxicaciones por plaguicidas son un importante problema en salud pública a nivel mundial debido a la morbilidad y la mortalidad que producen (1). Los plaguicidas son sustancias que se han empleado para prevenir, destruir, repeler o mitigar plagas, tanto en la agricultura como en la lucha contra los vectores.…”
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“…Posteriormente, Gunnell y Eddleston estimaron que ocurrían cerca de 300.000 muertes al año debidas a intoxicación intencional, solamente en zonas rurales de China y el sudeste asiático (3). A pesar de los problemas en la estimación de la carga mundial de la intoxicación por plaguicidas, Bertolote también consideró que anualmente ocurrían millones de casos de intoxicaciones por plaguicidas, de los cuales cientos de miles podían resultar en muertes en países de bajos y medianos ingresos (1). En el 2010, en el estudio de carga global de la enfermedad, se estimaron en 180,4 (IC 95% 130,1-239,9) las muertes causadas por todo tipo de intoxicaciones, para una tasa de mortalidad ajustada por edad de 2,6 por 100.000 (IC 95% 1,9-3,5); además, se observó que entre los 15 y 49 años de edad, el 1,2 % de las 5'741.344 muertes en hombres se había debido a intoxicaciones, en tanto que el 0,9 % de las 3'496.480 muertes en mujeres había correspondido a intoxicaciones (4).…”
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