Depression and Pesticide Exposure Among Male Farmers in Greece

Elisavet Frengidou1, Petros Galanis, Konstantinos Chatzimichael

  • 1From the Public Organization for Providing Health Care Services, Regional Department of North and East Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece (E.F.); Faculty of Nursing, Center for Health Services Management and Evaluation, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece (P.G.); Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece (K.C., C.M.); and Laboratory of Pesticide Science, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece (E.K.).

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