Published on in Vol 8, No 1 (2019): January

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/10914, first published .
Exposure to Pesticides and Health Effects on Farm Owners and Workers From Conventional and Organic Agricultural Farms in Costa Rica: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

Exposure to Pesticides and Health Effects on Farm Owners and Workers From Conventional and Organic Agricultural Farms in Costa Rica: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

Exposure to Pesticides and Health Effects on Farm Owners and Workers From Conventional and Organic Agricultural Farms in Costa Rica: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study

Samuel Fuhrimann   1 , PhD ;   Mirko S Winkler   2, 3 , PhD ;   Philipp Staudacher   4, 5 , MSc ;   Frederik T Weiss   4, 5 , MSc ;   Christian Stamm   4, 5 , PhD ;   Rik IL Eggen   4, 5 , PhD ;   Christian H Lindh   6 , PhD ;   José A Menezes-Filho   7 , PhD ;   Joseph M Baker   8 , PhD ;   Fernando Ramírez-Muñoz   9 , PhD ;   Randall Gutiérrez-Vargas   10 , PhD ;   Ana M Mora   9 , PhD

1 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

2 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

3 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

4 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland

5 Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics (IBP), Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

6 Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

7 Laboratory of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

8 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

9 Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

10 Centro de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Salud y Deporte, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

Corresponding Author:

  • Ana M Mora, PhD
  • Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET)
  • Universidad Nacional
  • P.O. Box 86
  • Heredia, 3000
  • Costa Rica
  • Phone: 506 22773677
  • Email: ana.mora.mora@una.cr