RESUMO
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.
Assuntos
Doenças dos Trabalhadores Agrícolas/etiologia , Saúde Ambiental , Frutas , Saúde Ocupacional , Praguicidas/intoxicação , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Doenças dos Trabalhadores Agrícolas/epidemiologia , Estudos Transversais , Demografia , Nível de Saúde , Humanos , Índia/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Prevalência , Roupa de Proteção , Fatores SocioeconômicosRESUMO
Twenty-six farm workers handling about 4 kg of commercial grade hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)/y for 2-5 y and 21 control subjects were studied for chronic effects in clinical, hematological and cardiac variables. No clinically apparent morbidity was detected, but changes in hemoglobin and electrocardiograms were early effects of HCH exposure.