Abstract
Objectives: The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of acute pesticide poisoning among children in South Korea and describe the related epidemiologic characteristics.Methods: We evaluated the age-standardized rates of incidence of pesticide poisoning among children in South Korea from 2006 through 2009 using National Health Insurance claims data.Results: A total of 1232 children aged 0-14 years were identified from the acute pesticide poisoning cases reported across South Korea during the study period. The annual average age-standardized rate of incidence from acute pesticide poisoning was 3.6 per 100 000. The majority of the cases were identified in the categories of the 1-4-year-old age-group (56.5%), outpatients (80.0%), single-day visit to a hospital (70.4%) and summer occurrence (43.3%).Conclusions: Acute pesticide poisoning is prevalent among children in South Korea; therefore, intervention efforts are needed to reduce the cases of pesticide poisoning among children.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | fmt067 |
| Pages (from-to) | 4-9 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Tropical Pediatrics |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 Feb |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0021742).
Keywords
- Agricultural chemicals
- Children
- Epidemiology
- Incidence
- Poisoning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine