Citation

Gupta BN, Mathur N, Rastogi SK, Srivastava AK, Chandra H, Pangtey BS, Mahendra PN, Bharti RS. Biomed. Environ. Sci. 1995; 8(4): 301-309.

Affiliation

Epidemiology Division, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Publisher Academic Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8719171

Abstract

A cross-sectional survey of 489 male subjects in the age group 15 to 65 years engaged directly or indirectly in mango cultivation along with 208 control subjects was carried out to find their socio-economic, environmental and health conditions. The conditions like high illiteracy rate (49.5%), poverty (PCI less than Rs 100 per month, 52.2%), poor housing (mud houses, 66.7%) unsafe water supply (78.6%) were prevailing in the surveyed population. The high respiratory morbidity may be attributed to high prevalence of smoking and prolonged inhalation of organic dusts during farming operation associated with illiteracy and poor socio-economic status. Gastrointestinal disorders were related to poor hygienic conditions, smoking and consumption of contaminated water. The symptoms pertaining to CNS, skin and eyes were found to be associated with exposure to pesticides.

Language: en