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Glossary
- Agriculture Category:
- is based on industry codes. Categories are agricultural, non-agricultural,
and unknown.
- Application Target:
- This variable describes the target surface for the pesticide application.
It provides information on the pattern of acute occupational pesticide-related
illness associated with particular crops, structures, and other application
target sites.
- Case Definition:
- see "Status"
- Contact:
- see "Type of Exposure"
- Drift:
- see "Type of Exposure"
- Indoor Air:
- see "Type of Exposure"
- Industry:
- is the industry at time of injury or exposure. Industry codes are
US Bureau of the Census industry codes(1990 census is the standard
currently in use).
- Industry Category:
- These categories are defined by the US
Bureau of the Census and each category consists of several specific
1990 industry codes.
- Insecticide Chemical Class:
- This classification provides information on the structure, properties,
and/or mode of action of the insecticide. When an insecticide is responsible
for a case’s illness, these insecticides are assigned into one
or more insecticide chemical class(es). Insecticide chemical classes
include organochlorines, organophosphates, pyrethroids, and pyrethrins.
Insecticide chemical class codes are also available to handle situations
in which insecticides from more than one insecticide chemical class
are responsible for illness.
- Occupation:
- is the occupation/job title at time of injury or exposure. Occupation
codes are the numeric 1990 US Bureau of the Census codes.
- Occupation Category:
- These categories are defined by the
US Bureau of the Census and each category consists of several specific
1990 occupation codes.
- Pesticide Functional Class:
- This classification generally refers to the target pest or purpose
of a pesticide. The pesticide(s) responsible for a case’s illness
are assigned into one or more pesticide functional class(es). Pesticide
functional classes include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and
fumigants. Pesticide functional class codes are also available to handle
situations in which pesticides from more than one pesticide functional
class are responsible for illness.
- PPE - Personal protective equipment:
- PPE are items that are worn to prevent excessive exposure to pesticides.
It should be noted that PPE use is less desirable compared to other
control approaches(e.g. engineering controls or administrative controls)
because of the difficulty in ensuring that PPE is used appropriately.
In this data, PPE use is coded as "Worn" if one or more of the following
were used: respirator(any type), chemically resistant boots or gloves,
cloth or leather gloves, chemical goggles/faceshield, chemically resistant
clothing, or engineering controls.
- SENSOR:
- This is the acronym for Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational
Risks. The mission of the SENSOR program is to build and maintain occupational
illness and injury surveillance capacity within state health departments.
Under this program, NIOSH/CDC provides cooperative agreement funding
and technical support to state health departments to conduct surveillance
on one or more occupational illnesses or injuries.
- SENSOR-Pesticides:
- One of the illnesses supported under the SENSOR program is acute
occupational pesticide-related illness and injury. The SENSOR-pesticides
program includes NIOSH and all states collaborating with NIOSH on acute
occupational pesticide poisoning surveillance. Besides tabulating the
number of acute occupational pesticide-related cases, surveillance
systems supported by SENSOR-pesticides perform in-depth investigations
for case confirmation, and develop preventive interventions aimed at
particular industries or pesticide hazards. The data available on this
wedsite were provided by states participating in the SENSOR-pesticides
program.
- Severity:
- This is the severity score. A severity score is assigned to each
case based on criteria provided in the severity index. The complete severity
index is available. Briefly, a case of pesticide-related illness
or injury is classified into one of the following severity score categories:
low, moderate, high, or death. Information considered when assigning
everity includes signs and symptoms, whether health care was sought,
length of hospital stay, and work days lost due to the illness. A low
severity illness or injury consists of minimally bothersome health
effects that generally esolve rapidly. A moderate severity illness
or injury consists of non-life threatening health effects that
are more ronounced, prolonged or of a systemic nature compared to a
low severity illness. A high severity illness or injury consists
of life threatening health effects or those that result in significant
residual disability or disfigurement. Death is the severity
category assigned to fatalities resulting from pesticide exposure.
- Spray:
- see "Type of Exposure"
- Status:
- This is the classification category applied to a given case. The
status is derived by using criteria provided in the case definition
for acute pesticide-related illness and injury. The complete case definition is
available. Briefly, information in three areas is required: pesticide
exposure, health effects, and toxicological evidence supporting an
association between exposure and effect. A case of pesticide-related
illness or injury is classified into one of the following categories:
definite, probable, possible, or suspicious. The specific status applied
to a given case depends on the strength of exposure evidence, the health
effects that were reported, and whether the health effects were consistent
with the known toxicology of the implicated pesticide(s).
- Surface:
- see "Type of Exposure"
- Type of Exposure:
- This variable provides information on how the individual was exposed.
Accepted values for this variable are: drift, spray, indoor air, surface,
contact, other,and unknown.
- Drift:
- is the physical movement of a pesticide away from the treatment
site (often referred to as off-target drift). This value is used
when a subject is exposed to a pesticide through off-target drift.
- Spray:
- indicates the subject was exposed by direct spray of the pesticide
(i.e. the pesticide is propelled by the application or mix/load
equipment). This also pertains to pesticide exposure by ricochet
of the direct spray.
- Indoor Air:
- pertains to when the subject is exposed via indoor air contamination,
including residential, commercial and greenhouse indoor air.
- Surface:
- indicates that the subject was exposed via contact with a treated
surface (e.g. plant material, carpets, treated animal, etc.).
- Contact:
- indicates that the subject was exposed by other direct contact
(e.g pesticide spill, leaking container or equipment, flood waters,
emergency response).
- Other:
- This is used when the "type of exposure" does not fit into any
of the other variable values
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