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Data Brief. 2019 May 24;25:103993. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103993. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Data on pesticide exposure and mental health screening of family farmers in Brazil.

Data in brief

Rafael Junqueira Buralli, Helena Ribeiro, Renata Spolti Leão, Rejane Correa Marques, Jean Remy Daveé Guimarães

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Saúde Ambiental, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  2. Centro de Tecnologia em Nanomateriais e Grafeno - CTNANO/UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  3. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Campus Macaé, Macaé, Brazil.
  4. Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PMID: 31294047 PMCID: PMC6595273 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103993

Abstract

This dataset is part of a risk assessment project that evaluated the human health effects of pesticide exposure in São José de Ubá, State of Rio de Janeiro. This region is one of the greatest tomato producers in Brazil, and pest control is commonly based on the use of pesticides. We interviewed 78 smallholder family farmers about sociodemographic characteristics, pesticide use and exposure, assessed blood cholinesterase as biomarkers (

Keywords: Agricultural worker's diseases; Farmers; Mental health; Occupational exposure; Pesticides

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