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    • Pesticide Exposure and Respiratory Health of Indigenous Women in Costa Rica 

      Fieten, Karin; Kromhout, Hans; Heederik, Dick; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and American Journal of EpidemiologyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2009-02-18)
      A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2007 to evaluate the relation between pesticide exposure and respiratory health in a population of indigenous women in Costa Rica. Exposed women (n ¼ 69) all worked at plantain p ...
    • Pesticide use in banana and plantain production and risk perception among local actors in Talamanca, Costa Rica 

      Barraza, Douglas; Jansen, Kees; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Wesseling, Catharina (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 ...