Pesticide Deaths in California, 1990 – 1996

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• Personal Author:
  Mehler L ; Romano P ; Samuels S ; Schenker M
• Description:
  California maintains surveillance for human health effects of pesticide exposure. By law, doctors must report any patient that they know or have reason to believe suffers from any disease or condition caused by a pesticide. This study investigated mortality following exposure to pesticides in the State of California from 1990 through 1996. Fatalities were identified through death certificates and the State surveillance program for pesticide illnesses. A sample of hospital records and poison control consultation logs were reviewed for the years 1994 - 1996, which identified three suicides not located among death certificates or surveillance records. Duplications were avoided by collecting individual identifiers from each source, which permitted probabilistic linkage confirmed by operator review. The study characterized deaths by the types of pesticides involved and the circumstances of exposure, and used the results as a measure of the State surveillance program's success in identifying fatalities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Health Promotion Insecticides Occupational Health Poisoning Safety
• Keywords:
  Doctors Exposure-levels Exposure-limits Exposure-methods Health-hazards Health-programs Health-standards Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Poison-control Poisons Statistical-analysis Statistical-quality-control Surveillance-programs

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• Publisher:
  California Environmental Protection Agency
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033386
• Citation:
  Sacramento, CA: California Environmental Protection Agency, Health & Safety Report HS-1821, 2001 Oct; :1-22
• Contact Point Address:
  L. Mehler, California Environmental Protection Agency Department of Pesticide Regulation Worker Health and Safety Branch 1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Davis
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19900930
• Source Full Name:
  Pesticide deaths in California, 1990 - 1996
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5717eb2a1bf6baeaacc55a95e81b73507babf369567105584f3efd3c385413264cbf9564f5bf870651009e27a3d18f6904be1ae1c521bd05f9ff545b96b15938
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188991/cdc_188991_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 69.77 KB ]