Occupational hazards and health cost of women cotton pickers in Pakistani Punjab

• Main Authors: Khuda Bakhsh (Author), Naeem Ahmad (Author), M. Asif Kamran (Author), Sarfraz Hassan (Author), Qasir Abbas (Author), Rashed Saeed (Author), M. Sadiq Hashmi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Farm workers and female cotton pickers are exposed to residual impacts of pesticide use in cotton production, in addition to dust, ultraviolet radiation, etc. Cotton picking causes various health hazards among cotton pickers with varied health cost. A soil bacterium known as Baci...