Agricultural epidemiology and environmental toxicity: some statistical perspectives. (Special Issue: Agricultural environmental health: epidemiology, toxicology and related issues.)

摘要

Environmental toxicity has significant impact on agricultural system and ecology, and consequently, on human being. The population explosion, particularly, in the Indian sub-continent and China, and to boost production and combat wastage of agricultural products, fertilizers and pesticides have been used, more extensively in the past six decades. There is a countless number of environmental stressors, some man made and not all working reconcilably, whose composite impact on agricultural system, plants and all living creatures has been disasterous. A statistical appraisal of environmental toxicology in relation to human health and agricultural epidemiology is made. Routine data mining approaches may be quite misleading in this venture.