Pesticide safe use practice and acute health symptoms, and associated factors among farmers in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of an epidemiological evidence
Belay Desye, Amensisa Hailu Tesfaye, Chala Daba, Embay Amare Alemseged, Yonas Angaw, Ahmed Mohammed Ebrahim, Tarikuwa Natnael, Seada Hassen, Lebasie Woretaw · 2024
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Belay Desye and eight co-authors pool the evidence on how safely farmers in developing countries handle pesticides, and what the chemicals do to them, in this 2024 review. Pesticide use is rising fastest where protective equipment, training, and regulation are thinnest. Individual studies of poisoning symptoms and safety habits disagree, so the authors set out to average the field.
Searching four databases and grey literature up to mid-2023, they gathered the studies and appraised their quality with a standard tool. A random-effects model then combined them, one that expects real differences between settings. The analysis reports how common safe practices, gloves, masks, label reading, actually are, how often acute symptoms follow spraying, and which factors, education, training, farm size, travel with the results. For ministries designing farmer training, pooled numbers beat anecdotes.
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| CREATOR | Belay Desye, Amensisa Hailu Tesfaye, Chala Daba, Embay Amare Alemseged, Yonas Angaw, Ahmed Mohammed Ebrahim, Tarikuwa Natnael, Seada Hassen, Lebasie Woretaw |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |