Impactos dos agrotóxicos na saúde dos pequenos agricultores do nordeste brasileiro : uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

Currently, Brazil is the largest consumer of pesticides in the world. Several studies prove the harm to human and environmental health of exposure to pesticides, however intoxication is related to the lack of knowledge and guidance of the applicators. on the health of small farmers with hanging in the Northeast region of Brazil. Thus, a search was carried out in previously published studies that involved the impact on the health of small farmers in the northeast region, in which 14 studies published in magazines and periodicals that portrayed the theme were found. In view of this, it is concluded that pesticides have a high power to cause damage to health and the environment, one of the main causes of intoxication of rural workers is the lack of knowledge, the non-use of PPE, which leads to large numbers of intoxication of small farmers in the Northeast region