TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Acute pesticide poisoning among children in South Korea: Findings from National Health Insurance claims data, 2006-2009
JO  - Journal of tropical pediatrics
A1  - Lee, Won Jin
A1  - Ko, Yousun
A1  - Cha, Eun Shil
SP  - 4
EP  - 9
VL  - 60
IS  - 1
N2  - OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of acute pesticide poisoning among children in South Korea and describe the related epidemiologic characteristics.METHODS: We evaluated the age-standardized rates of incidence of pesticide poisoning among children in South Korea from 2006 through 2009 using National Health Insurance claims data.RESULTS: A total of 1232 children aged 0-14 years were identified from the acute pesticide poisoning cases reported across South Korea during the study period. The annual average age-standardized rate of incidence from acute pesticide poisoning was 3.6 per 100 000. The majority of the cases were identified in the categories of the 1-4-year-old age-group (56.5%), outpatients (80.0%), single-day visit to a hospital (70.4%) and summer occurrence (43.3%).CONCLUSIONS: Acute pesticide poisoning is prevalent among children in South Korea; therefore, intervention efforts are needed to reduce the cases of pesticide poisoning among children.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0142-6338
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tropej/fmt067
ID  - ref1
ER  -