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The impact of pesticide regulations on suicide in Sri Lanka

Author(s) -

D. Gunnell,

R Fernando,

M Hewagama,

W D D Priyangika,

Flemming Konradsen,

Michael Eddleston

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym164

Subject(s) - sri lanka , environmental health , pesticide , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , endosulfan , injury prevention , toxicology , occupational safety and health , socioeconomics , biology , ecology , economics , pathology , tanzania

Between 1950 and 1995 suicide rates in Sri Lanka increased 8-fold to a peak of 47 per 100,000 in 1995. By 2005, rates had halved. We investigated whether Sri Lanka's regulatory controls on the import and sale of pesticides that are particularly toxic to humans were responsible for these changes in the incidence of suicide.

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