Citation

Xue DS, Li Y, Jin ZG, Tao BG, Zhou QD. Med. Lav. 1998; 89(Suppl 2): S99-104.

Affiliation

Department of Occupational Health, Shanghai Medical University, China.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Società italiana di medicina del lavoro, Publisher Mattioli)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10217930

Abstract

The past decade experienced a stunning change in the incidence and fatality rates of pesticide poisonings in China. A study on representative case records of pesticide poisoning in a chinese province is presented here. A three-fold increase in poisoning cases due to a lack of preventive measures was reported at the beginning of the 1980s, under the rural economic reformation. Occupational intoxication incidence was swiftly reduced within a couple of years, and further stepped down as the adequate means were taken. On the contrary, the increase in non-occupational cases declined very slowly. The fatality rate of occupational poisoning cases was kept low (around few per thousand), while the non-occupational remarkably declined from 30% to 11% thanks to the efforts of health and medical care centres. The number and fatality rate of non-occupational cases thus came to play a more and more important role. Such trend is worth our attention.

Language: en