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Pesticide exposure of alpine agricultural workers in Gangwon-do and the measurement of their health status measured by SF-12  

Song, Jae-Seok (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health)
Park, Woong-Sub (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health)
Seo, Jong-Chul (Institute of Industrial Environmental Health)
Kwak, Youn-Hee (Institute of Industrial Environmental Health)
Kim, Sang-Ah (Institute of Medical Science, Kwandong University)
Kim, Byung-Sup (Department of Applied Plant Science, Kangnung National University)
Choi, Hong-Soon (Institute of Industrial Environmental Health)
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The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science / v.9, no.4, 2005 , pp. 287-291 More about this Journal
Abstract
The development of agricultural technology makes the increasement of pesticide usage. The results of pesticide usage were the increment of agricultural outcomes, but the health hazard was increasing also. Especially, alpine agriculture needs more pesticide than general agriculture and they suffered from more pesticide induced health symptoms. There were no study about the pesticide usage and subjective health status. So, this study was performed to investigate the relationship between pesticide usage and health status. The health status was measured by SF-12. SF-12 was well known health status measurement tool. SF-12 have two components, which were mental component score and physical component score. As a results of analysis, the alpine agricultural workers had higher pesticide exposure index and acute symptom score. As the results of multivariate analysis, physical component score was affected by pesticide exposure, but mental component score was not. Although, this study has many limitations, the result of this study can suggest the need of political advise and the further study.
Keywords
Pesticide exposure; SF-12;
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