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KMID : 0378019750180060765
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New Medical Journal
1975 Volume.18 No. 6 p.765 ~ p.770
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Health Status among the Residents Occupationally Exposed to Pesticides
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Abstract
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In order to obtain the basic data of health status from the apple orchardists occupationally exposed to pesticides and the farmers rarely exposed, 1,150 subjects, 758 males and 392 females, were examined.
The occurrence of disease or disability considered due to the use of pesticides was determined by the number of residents suffered from the diseases in the past one month.
The monthly morbidity of the disease or disability among the respondents was 30.8 per cent. Of these, the morbidity in males was 34.9 per cent and 28. 6 per cent in females.
When the diseases were classified by the International Classification of Diseases, the morbidity rates for males were 9.2 per cent in the digestive system, 7.1 per cent in the nervous and sensory organs, 3. 3 per cent in the respiratory system and 1.8 per cent by accidents and poisonings. While, in the females the rates was the highest in the nervous and sensory organs (13.8%), and followed by the digestive system (5. 9%). The third was the blood and blood-forming organs (3. 1 %). The least often observed was the bone and organs of movement (2. 0%). These results indicated that the diseases of the nervous system and sensory organs are more common in the projected areas than in the other rural areas.
Among the males, the monthly morbidity of exposed group was compared to that of the nonexposed controls. It was found that 3. 6 per cent of the former suffered from the disease of respiratory system, 1. 3 per cent from both the diseases of skin and cellular tissue and the bone and organs of movement. Whereas, 2.8 per cent of the latter had the disease of respiratory system, only 0. 3 per cent had the diseases of skin and cellular tissue, and only 0.7 per cent had the bone and organs of movement.
Comparison of the monthly morbidity rates of the three groups revealed some differences: The group of spray operators was the highest in percentage(30.7%), and followed by the group of labors occasionally exposed (26.5%); the least was found in the non-exposed group (22.1%).
Immediately after the use of pesticides, about one-third of spray operators complained frequently. They included headache, nausea, indigestion and profuse sweating.
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