Revised Nation-wide Survey for Clinical Cases of Pesticide Poisoning (Disorders) and a Protocol of Epidemiological Research Work for Health Disturbance / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

Research work of the Special Research Group for Survey of Pesticide Poisoning (Chief: T. Matsushita) was presented and discussed.<BR>The main items are as follows:<BR>1) Long term years of nation-wide survey for clinical cases of pesticide poisoning (disorders) in Japan from 1967 to 1989, which was carried out by the Research Group of the Pesticide Poisoning under the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine, was reconsidered. And, revised systems of this survey including new survey forms were proposed.<BR>2) Results of methodological research work of our group for epidemiological study to clarify health disturbance from pesticides were indicated and a personal protocol was also presented.