International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) - Resources: Suicide and Pesticides
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| Community uptake of safe storage boxes to reduce self-poisoning from pesticides in rural Sri Lanka Published by BMC Public Health, in 2007, research article reveals that the introduction of in-house safe storage boxes resulted in a shift of storage into the farmer's home and away from the field and this may increase the domestic risk of impulsive self-poisoning episodes. - Read more http://iasp.info/pdf/pesticides/2007%20Safestorage%20Konradsen%20Project.pdf | |
| Report of the Changes in the Trend in Suicidal Behaviour in Cameron Highlands in Malaysia The result obtained showed that the suicide rate in Cameron Highlands has declined greatly to about 15 per 100,000 compared to 60 per 100,000 in the preceding two decade, See conclusion. - Read more http://iasp.info/pdf/pesticides/ASEAN_JP_8_Dacha_a.pdf | |
| Report on the International Workshop on Secure Access to Pesticides - Durban 2005 The overall aim of this workshop was to develop a collaborative model in which the issues surrounding use of pesticides as a means of suicide are addressed, actioned and publicized with the ultimate objective of reducing deaths to suicides by ingesting pesticides. - Read more http://iasp.info/pdf/pesticides/2005_report_intl_workshop_secure_access_to_pesticides_durban.pdf | |
| Safer Access to Pesticides: Community Interventions Guidelines produced by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2006, offer recommended steps to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of proposed community interventions and to adapt them to local conditions. - Read more http://iasp.info/pdf/pesticides/2006_safer_access_to_pesticides_community_intervention.pdf | |
| Suicide, suicide attempts and pesticides: a major hidden public health problem Bulletin of the World Health Organization, published in 2006, reveals that as many as 300,000 deaths each year result from intentional poisoning. See references provided. - Read more http://iasp.info/pdf/pesticides/Bertolote_et_al_2006.pdf | |
