A prospective cohort study of school-going children investigating reproductive and neurobehavioral health effects due to environmental pesticide exposure in the Western Cape, South Africa: study protocol

A prospective cohort study of school-going children investigating reproductive and neurobehavioral health effects due to environmental pesticide exposure in the Western Cape, South Africa: study protocol

Abstract Background Research on reproductive health effects on children from low-level, long-term exposure to pesticides currently used in the agricultural industry is limited and those on neurobehavioral effects have produced conflicting evidence. We aim at investigating the association between pes...

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Main Authors: Shala Chetty-Mhlanga, Wisdom Basera, Samuel Fuhrimann, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Steven Delport, Mufaro Mugari, Jennifer Van Wyk, Martin Röösli, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
Pesticides
Low exposures
Reproductive health
Neurobehaviour
Co-exposures
School-going children
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-018-5783-0

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