Estudio de la relación del uso de agroquímicos elaborados a base de carbamatos en cultivos de cebolla, con la salud de agricultores en el municipio de Aquitania Boyacá
Fecha
2020-12-04Registro en:
Vargas, G.E. & Daza, A.S. (2020).Estudio de la relación del uso de agroquímicos elaborados a base de carbamatos en cultivos de cebolla, con la salud de agricultores en el municipio de Aquitania Boyacá.Trabajo de grado de pregrado. Universidad Santo Tomás. Tunja.
reponame:Repositorio Institucional Universidad Santo Tomás
instname:Universidad Santo Tomás
Autor
Vargas Salas, Guillermo Eduardo
Daza Pedraza, Andres Sebastian
Institución
Resumen
The intoxications or poisonings in the human being by improper use of agrochemicals in food, has become a significant problem in the environment and public health; generating affectations in farmers and consumers. Some factors such as the time of exposure and inadequate dosages, increase the risk factors on health, causing symptoms of mild and moderate intoxications or
poisonings with symptoms of common diseases.
In accordance with the above, the project identified the effects of the handling of carbamate-based agrochemicals on the health of onion farmers located in the Municipality of Aquitania Boyacá, through a methodology for the collection of information that consisted of the application of surveys to agricultural workers who use this type of chemical. As a starting point, the most commonly used pesticides in the municipalities of interest were identified. Consequently, variables such as requency of spraying, exposure time, use of personal protection equipment, worker's age and dosage of agrochemicals used on the crops were taken into account; information that was related to alterations or signs of intoxication manifested by the population of agricultural vocation through correlations taking into account Spearman's Rho method. In the same way, it was determined the presence and level of intoxications, associating the symptoms manifested by the sample with the standardized scale POISONING SEVERITY SCORE (PSS) IPCS/EAPCCT of the World Health Organization.
As a result, the consequences of the use of such agricultural chemicals were observed, causing intoxication of individuals to a mild and moderate degree; mainly affecting the subjects' cardiovascular and nervous systems. The selected variables obtain a high correlation with the health affectations observed in the sample, since, due to the circumstances of exposure and
deficiencies in the manipulation of these chemicals, the appearance of symptoms and diseases in the human being is promoted.