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Duleeka W Knipe, David Gunnell, Michael Eddleston 

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1 Preventing deaths from pesticide self-poisoning—learning from Sri Lanka's success 
Duleeka W Knipe, David Gunnell, Michael Eddleston  The Lancet Global Health  Volume 5, Issue 7, Pages e651-e652 (July 2017) DOI: /S X(17) Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Terms and Conditions

2 Figure Incidence of suicide in Sri Lanka, 1880–2015
Arrows show timing of pesticide bans (1984: parathion, methylparathion; 1995: all remaining WHO class I toxicity pesticides, including methamidophos and monocrotophos; 1998: endosulfan; 2008: dimethoate, fenthion, paraquat). Suicide data were obtained from police records. The Lancet Global Health 2017 5, e651-e652DOI: ( /S X(17) ) Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license Terms and Conditions


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