Introduction: The health impact caused by the use of pesticides on farmers is mainly due to poor practices in managing them. Objective: To identify possible adverse effects on health and the environment associated with the use and management of pesticides in potato crops. Metodology: cross sectional study in the municipality of Totoro, Cauca department (Colombia), with a sample of 125 workers. Each selected individual survey was applied and collected a sample of 10 ml of blood to determine the activity of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase both plasma and erythrocytes by Michel technique. Results: 74.4% (n = 93) of workers employed pesticides in their work and 49.6% (n = 62) used them at home. The highest frequency of pesti...
La investigación se llevó a cabo en el cantón Quero, localizado en el sector suroeste de la provinci...
The objective was To Go Into the capability of the use that has the farmers of San Miguel's district...
Valuation of risk factors associated to the handling and exposure habits of organophosphates and car...
Objective: It was to evaluate the use of pesticides and the symptoms caused by the misuse or / and m...
Introduction. In 2005, the Sistema de Vigilancia en Salud Pública, the governmental agency responsib...
Los plaguicidas son productos químicos, naturales o sintéticos, y han sido utilizados desde hace var...
Introduction: The health impact caused by the use of pesticides on farmers is mainly due to poor pra...
In the agricultural sector, in most countries, there is a massive use of pesticides, and a deficit o...
In the agricultural sector, in most countries, there is a massive use of pesticides, and a deficit o...
Cholinesterases are a group of catalytic enzymes whose activity can be diminished by different facto...
Cholinesterases are a group of catalytic enzymes whose activity can be diminished by different facto...
Introduction. In Colombia, pesticide exposure has became a public health problem, as the use of thes...
The use of pesticides requires appropriate technical knowledge, to prevent problems for the environm...
As previous studies have reported that long-term exposure tu pesticides anticholinesterases (organop...
In Latin America, Colombia is in the third place in the consumption of pesticides, keeping in mind t...
La investigación se llevó a cabo en el cantón Quero, localizado en el sector suroeste de la provinci...
The objective was To Go Into the capability of the use that has the farmers of San Miguel's district...
Valuation of risk factors associated to the handling and exposure habits of organophosphates and car...
Objective: It was to evaluate the use of pesticides and the symptoms caused by the misuse or / and m...
Introduction. In 2005, the Sistema de Vigilancia en Salud Pública, the governmental agency responsib...
Los plaguicidas son productos químicos, naturales o sintéticos, y han sido utilizados desde hace var...
Introduction: The health impact caused by the use of pesticides on farmers is mainly due to poor pra...
In the agricultural sector, in most countries, there is a massive use of pesticides, and a deficit o...
In the agricultural sector, in most countries, there is a massive use of pesticides, and a deficit o...
Cholinesterases are a group of catalytic enzymes whose activity can be diminished by different facto...
Cholinesterases are a group of catalytic enzymes whose activity can be diminished by different facto...
Introduction. In Colombia, pesticide exposure has became a public health problem, as the use of thes...
The use of pesticides requires appropriate technical knowledge, to prevent problems for the environm...
As previous studies have reported that long-term exposure tu pesticides anticholinesterases (organop...
In Latin America, Colombia is in the third place in the consumption of pesticides, keeping in mind t...
La investigación se llevó a cabo en el cantón Quero, localizado en el sector suroeste de la provinci...
The objective was To Go Into the capability of the use that has the farmers of San Miguel's district...
Valuation of risk factors associated to the handling and exposure habits of organophosphates and car...