Survey of pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka

J Jeyaratnam, RS de Alwis Seneviratne… - Bulletin of the World …, 1982 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sri Lanka, and showed that approximately 13 000 patients are admitted to hospital annually
for pesticide poisoningPesticides are important in developing countries and will continue to …

Pesticide poisoning: a major health problem in Sri Lanka

W Van Der Hoek, F Konradsen, K Athukorala… - Social science & …, 1998 - Elsevier
… program in Sri Lanka, acute pesticide poisoning was identified … acute pesticide poisoning
and to find out more about the role … the literature on pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka. The paper …

Risk factors for acute pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka

W Van Der Hoek, F Konradsen - Tropical Medicine & …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… acute pesticide poisoning in a rural area of Sri Lanka and, for intentional self-poisoning cases,
… Data were collected for 239 acute pesticide-poisoning cases, which were admitted to two …

Amitraz poisoning: A case report of an unusual pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka and literature review

H Herath, SP Pahalagamage… - BMC pharmacology and …, 2017 - Springer
… A twenty-year-old Sri Lankan female presented following self-ingestion of 20 ml of amitraz
resulting in 37.8 mg/ kg of amitraz poisoning. She lost consciousness after 20 min of ingestion, …

[PDF][PDF] Influence of pesticide regulation on acute poisoning deaths in Sri Lanka

DM Roberts, A Karunarathna… - Bulletin of the World …, 2003 - SciELO Public Health
… — by limiting the availability and use of highly toxic pesticides. Methods Information on … the
Sri Lanka Health Statistics Unit, and individual details of deaths by pesticide poisoning were …

Case fatality of agricultural pesticides after self-poisoning in Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study

NA Buckley, M Fahim, J Raubenheimer… - The Lancet global …, 2021 - thelancet.com
… The improved outcome for most individual pesticide poisonings in Sri Lanka over time …
bans in reducing the overall case fatality of pesticide poisoning is clearly seen in our data. …

Pesticide poisoning in the developing world—a minimum pesticides list

M Eddleston, L Karalliedde, N Buckley, R Fernando… - The Lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
… Self-harm and pesticide poisoning are such great problems in Sri Lanka that the President
set up a special commission in the mid 1990s to advise on ways to reduce the country's high …

Reaching for the bottle of pesticide—a cry for help. Self-inflicted poisonings in Sri Lanka

F Konradsen, W van der Hoek, P Peiris - Social science & medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
Sri Lanka explored the complexities behind self-inflicted pesticide poisonings by 166 Sri
Lankans… Analysis of a large case series of acute poisoning in the south of Sri Lanka, including …

The impact of pesticide regulations on suicide in Sri Lanka

D Gunnell, R Fernando, M Hewagama… - International journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… in pesticide self-poisoning, we obtained data on the number of hospital admissions for pesticide
poisoning and … by recent declines in the case-fatality of pesticide poisoning in Sri Lanka. …

Restrictions on pesticides and deliberate self-poisoning in Sri Lanka

F Noghrehchi, AH Dawson, J Raubenheimer… - JAMA network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
pesticide poisoning to all self-poisonings. (BD) The proportion of pesticide poisoning to
all self-poisonings by pesticide … (EG) The proportion of pesticide poisoning by pesticide