A community-based cluster randomised trial of safe storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: study protocol.

A community-based cluster randomised trial of safe storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: study protocol.

BACKGROUND: The WHO recognises pesticide poisoning to be the single most important means of suicide globally. Pesticide self-poisoning is a major public health and clinical problem in rural Asia, where it has led to case fatality ratios 20-30 times higher than self-poisoning in the developed world....

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Main Authors: Pearson, M, Konradsen, F, Gunnell, D, Dawson, A, Pieris, R, Weerasinghe, M, Knipe, D, Jayamanne, S, Metcalfe, C, Hawton, K, Wickramasinghe, A, Atapattu, W, Bandara, P, de Silva, D, Ranasinghe, A, Mohamed, F, Buckley, N, Gawarammana, I, Eddleston, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2011

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