Response to: "letter to the editor regarding the article "the global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations based on a systematic review"" by Dunn et al. 2021 in BMC public health

Wolfgang Boedeker; Meriel Watts; Peter Clausing; Emily Marquez

doi:10.1186/s12889-021-11941-z

Response to: "letter to the editor regarding the article "the global distribution of acute unintentional pesticide poisoning: estimations based on a systematic review"" by Dunn et al. 2021 in BMC public health

BMC Public Health. 2021 Oct 27;21(1):1943. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11941-z.

Authors

Wolfgang Boedeker¹, Meriel Watts², Peter Clausing³, Emily Marquez⁴

Affiliations

¹ Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Germany, Nernstweg 32, 22765, Hamburg, Germany. info@epicurus.de.
² Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia Pacific, P.O. Box 1170, 10850, Penang, Malaysia.
³ Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Germany, Nernstweg 32, 22765, Hamburg, Germany.
⁴ Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America, 2029 University Ave., Suite 200, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA.

Abstract

In a correspondence to BMC Public Health, Dunn et al. (Dunn SE, Reed J and Neumann C. BMC Public Health (n.d)) respond to our review on the occurrence of unintentional, acute pesticide poisoning (UAPP). Based on a systematic review and further data sources we estimated that about 385 million cases of UAPP occur annually world-wide including around 11,000 fatalities (Boedeker W. et al. BMC Public Health:1875, 2020).

Keywords: Agriculture; Farmer; Farmworker; Herbicide; Insecticide; Morbidity; Mortality; Occupational; Pesticide; Poisoning.

Publication types

Comment

MeSH terms

Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval
Pesticides*
Public Health*

Substances

Pesticides