Manjula Weerasinghe

Dados Biográficos

ID7747133
NOMEManjula Weerasinghe
PRENOMESManjula
SOBRENOMEWeerasinghe
ASSINATURAWEERASINGHE M
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Peradeniya
ORCID0000-0002-6105-7989
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Evaluating spatial access to primary care and health disparities in a rural district of Sri Lanka

    Open AccessParami Abeyrathna, Manjula Weerasinghe et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Primary care accessibility is optimised by equity in service coverage, especially in resource-limited settings. This study examined spatial accessibility to private and public primary care facilities (PCFs) in the Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka, which offer both allopathic and alternative medicine, while analysing the correlation to social development indices. A two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) was applied to evaluate spatial accessibil…

  • “Ad hoc policy decisions” in the news

    Open AccessLisa Schölin, Pramila Hashini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Modern agriculture relies on pesticides to maximise outputs. While many highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) are banned in places like the European Union due to concerns about harm to the environment and human health, their use continues in many low- and middle-income counties (LMICs). Pesticide suicide is a public health problem unique to countries where HHPs are used, and Sri Lanka has successfully implemented several HHP bans as part of a suicid…

  • Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol

    Open AccessJanet Perkins, A Street et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Intentional and unintentional pesticide poisoning is an important public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Individuals who have been exposed to toxic pesticides, particularly organophosphorus insecticides, need early treatment. Atropine autoinjector devices offer a potential solution, allowing storage of effective treatment near agricultural workers' fields and homes that could be reached within minutes by the worker…

  • Involvement of alcohol in injury cases in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessLisa Schölin, Manjula Weerasinghe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    One in three injuries among people who drank alcohol in this sample were alcohol-related. In addition, problematic alcohol use was higher among those with alcohol-related injury. Further work is needed to explore whether this prevalence of alcohol-related injury is reflected in other rural settings in Sri Lanka

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessJane Pirkis, Ann John et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2021

  • Emerging pesticides responsible for suicide in rural Sri Lanka following the 2008–2014 pesticide bans

    Open AccessManjula Weerasinghe, Melissa Pearson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Ingestion of pesticides remains the most important means of suicides in rural Sri Lanka. The pesticides that were once responsible for most pesticide suicides have now been replaced by carbosulfan and profenofos. Their regulation and replacement in agriculture with less hazardous pesticides will further reduce the incidence of both pesticide and overall suicides in rural Sri Lanka

  • Estimating the government health-care costs of treating pesticide poisoned and pesticide self-poisoned patients in Sri Lanka

    Open AccessHannah Ahrensberg, Lizell B Madsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Background: Pesticide self-poisoning as a method of suicide is a major global health problem.Objectives: To estimate the cost and per patient cost of treating pesticide self-poisoning at different hospital levels in a Sri Lankan district, and to examine the distribution of cost components. Another objective was to investigate changes in total cost of treatment of pesticide poisoning for all causes at different administrative levels in Sri Lanka i…

  • Vendor-based restrictions on pesticide sales to prevent pesticide self-poisoning - a pilot study

    Open AccessManjula Weerasinghe, Flemming Konradsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Our study suggests that vendor-based sales restriction in regions with high rates of self-poisoning has the potential to reduce access to pesticides for self-poisoning. A large-scale study of the effectiveness and sustainability of this approach is needed

  • A community-based cluster randomised trial of safe storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessMelissa Pearson, Flemming Konradsen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2011

    This paper describes a large effectiveness study of a community intervention to reduce the burden of intentional poisoning in rural Sri Lanka. The study builds on a strong partnership between provincial health services, local and international researchers, and local communities. We discuss issues in relation to randomisation and contamination, engaging control villages, the intervention, and strategies to improve adherence

  • Community uptake of safe storage boxes to reduce self-poisoning from pesticides in rural Sri Lanka

    Open AccessFlemming Konradsen, Ravi Pieris et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2007

    The farming community appreciated the storage boxes and made storage of pesticides safer, especially for children. It seems that additional, intensive promotion is needed to ensure that pesticide boxes are locked. The introduction of in-house safe storage boxes resulted in a shift of storage into the farmer's home and away from the field and this may increase the domestic risk of impulsive self-poisoning episodes. This increased risk needs attent…