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Pesticide risk perceptions among bystanders of aerial spraying on bananas in Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2020-07-08)
Little is known about how bystanders perceive risks from pesticide use in areas with frequent aerial spraying of pesticides. This research aims to better understand how bystanders (school workers) from three counties of ...
Informality, social citizenship, and wellbeing among migrant workers in Costa Rica in the context of COVID-19
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-05-20)
Costa Rica is home to 557,000 migrants, whose disproportionate exposure to precarious, dangerous, and informal work has resulted in persistent inequities in health and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We ...
Basic questionnaire and methodological criteria for Surveys on Working Conditions, Employment, and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 2016-09-01)
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar un cuestionario básico y criterios
metodológicos mínimos, para ser considerados en futuras Encuestas sobre
Condiciones de Trabajo, Empleo y Salud (ECTES) en América Latina y el ...
Social movements and risk perception: unions, churches, pesticides and bananas in Costa Rica
(International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 19, no. 1 2013, 2013-11-12)
Background: Between 1992 and 2010 in the Costa Rican Caribbean, a social movement coalition called Foro Emau´s sought to change people’s view on problems of high pesticide use in banana production. Objective: To understand ...
Resultados del estudio: Los plaguicidas y sus efectos sobre la salud
(Universidad de Quebec, Montreal, CanadaUniversidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2009)
Muestra los resultados del estudio a partir de las respuestas aportadas por las 55 personas participantes.
Indigenous children living nearby plantations with chlorpyrifos-treated bags have elevated 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPy) urinary concentrations
(Elsevier, 2012)
The US Environmental Protection Agency voluntary phased-out residential use of chlorpyrifos in 2001. In contrast, in Costa Rica, chlorpyrifos-treated bags are increasingly used to protect
banana and plantain fruits from ...
Pesticide use in banana and plantain production and risk perception among local actors in Talamanca, Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2011-07)
The Talamanca County in Costa Rica has large-scale banana and small-scale plantain production,
probably causing pesticide exposure in indigenous children. We explored to what extent different
community actors are aware ...
Factores psicosociales de riesgo laboral asociados a variables sociodemográficas en personal docente de zonas urbana y rural en Costa Rica
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2023-11)
Evalúa la asociación de los factores psicosociales de riesgo laboral con variables sociodemográficas en el personal docente de dos centros de educación secundaria urbano y rural de Costa Rica. El instrumento utilizado fue ...