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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

The relationship between environmental exposures to pesticides measured by means of environmental exposure indices and the anthropomentric outcomes of boys living on farms in the rural Western Cape

Abstract

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Few epidemiological studies have investigated the effect of pesticides on growth of boys and results are conflicting. Pesticide environmental exposure indices have not previously been developed. To investigate the effect of pesticide exposure using environmental exposure indices on pubertal growth of boys...

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Department of Public Health and Family Medicine
Year dc:date.issued
2011

Author and committee

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  • Ochieng, Anne Achieng
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  • Dalvie, Mohamed Aqiel

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12169
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12169

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Ochieng, Anne Achieng. The relationship between environmental exposures to pesticides measured by means of environmental exposure indices and the anthropomentric outcomes of boys living on farms in the rural Western Cape. Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12169