‘Pesticide suicides reduce post 2011 ban on endosulfan’

Much of the decline, though, was offset by a parallel increase in suicides by hanging and other methods of poisoning, the study found, resulting in a much smaller dip in the overall cases. A new World Health Organisation (WHO)- funded modelling study for 14 countries, including China and India, found that bans on highly hazardous pesticides are a cost-effective method of suicide reduction.Much of the decline, though, was offset by a parallel increase in suicides by hanging and other methods of poisoning, the study found, resulting in a much smaller dip in the overall cases. A new World Health Organisation (WHO)- funded modelling study for 14 countries, including China and India, found that bans on highly hazardous pesticides are a cost-effective method of suicide reduction.