# Ramazzini Center/MScPubHealth SDU Thesis Projects/Pesticides and health Nepal/Minutes from meetings

Date:Oct 7, 2020 Time: 3 PM (Danish Time) Platform: Zoom Participants Suyasha Koirala Aayushi Thap Olaf Content:
* Search in pesticides and health done - review studies and single studies
* Continue to systematise the search and the draft report
* Discuss select cancer or/and other health outcomes
* Find out if there are any questionnaire data for analysis on acute symptoms
* Next meeting 15 Oct at 3 pm Danish time
Date: Sept 30, 2020 Time: 3 PM (Danish Time) Platform: Zoom Participants Dinesh Neupane Suyasha Koirala Aayushi Thap Agenda: To inform Dinesh about the future plan on CAR Nepal project
* After informing that both of them will help in literature review but will not make a project a thesis Dinesh respected the decision and asked for the future plan.
* Upon hearing the topic he suggested following things;
* He has also done the research on pesticide and is available in the SDU library if it is not accessible then he will forward.
* He suggested using households selected for the community based management of non communicable disease study in Nepal (COBIN) if the topic is related to NCD.
He has worked a while in this topic and is happy to help in any ways possible.
9 sep 8am Suyasha and Aayusi decided to quit waste household and go to pesticides better relate to health, support, they find out to get data and review - they orientate Erik and Dines
Minutes meeting 2 sep 2020
Minutes meeting 19 Aug 2020
Date: 12th August 2020 Time: 3 PM Platform: Zoom Participants
* 1. Aayushi Thapa
* 2. Suyasha Koirala
* 3. Olaf Chresten Jensen
Updates Searched Keywords
* - Solid waste = 11,581
* - Solid Waste Management = 3,711
* - Municipal and Solid Waste = 1,689
* - Household waste and Health risk = 22
Most of the research is done either in medical waste or in garbage pickers. Summary
* - Systematic critical review of epidemiological studies on PH concerns of Municipal solid waste handling. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1757913916639077
* Time reviewed: 1995 - 2014
* Conclusion: Review studies revealed no causal and non-causal relationship between specific waste management and adverse endpoints.
* - Assessment of plastic waste generation and its potential recycling of Household Solid Waste in Vietnam. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20490914/
* A 1-month survey of 130 households was carried out in southern Vietnam.
* Conclusion: The compostable and recyclable accounted for 80.74% and 11%. The plastic shopping bags accounted for 45.72% of total plastic waste. No strategies have been developed for recycling and disposal of plastic waste at local level and central level.
* Agenda
* 1. Ideas on research questions
* a. Handling of solid waste in Nepal
* b. General situation of solid waste in Nepal
* c. Improper solid waste management and the risk of contamination with animals (rats)
* d. People living near the contamination site (health prob of ultra poor people)
* Next Meeting
* - Search more on topics that were discussed today
* Time: 3 PM (Danish Time)
* Date: 19th August, 2020
Meeting Aug 5 8 am Suyasha & Aayushi invite Zoom
Zoom meeting 29 July at 3pm
* Minutes Meeting 29 july
* Erik and Diness Would prefer 5. or 6. of august
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Zoom meeting 21 July 2020
* Participants: Suyasha Koirala, Aayushi Thapa, Olaf
* Contact information shared
* Plan for next days:
* Create login for Wikiversity
* Clarifiy the names CISU application (Kurt Rasmussen is probably member not any longer)
* Discuss the plan: pesticide and CAR-Nepal (both or only one)
* Talk with Sabine and Janni (pls correct names) about place internship
* Zoom invitation from SK and AT
* Next Zoom meeting 29 July at 3pm Danish time
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The first Meeting minutes 02072020 pdf