Brazil is South America's largest country and economy, represented mainly by agricultural commodities. Its vast rainforest biodiversity are at constant risk from human actions that seen scientists contributing to climate change. This article dissects how influences directly indirectly affected change possible strategies control the current situation. Climate impacts Brazilian public health in m...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiological characteristics of Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mothers and the live birth conditions of neonates. METHODS A serological survey with IgG-specific tests was conducted using dried blood samples from newborn infants in the State of Minas Gerais. T. cruzi infection was confirmed in mothers through positive serology in two differen...

An alarming loss of genetic variability of three Andean tubers (Ullucus tuberosus, ullucus; Oxalis tuberosa, oca; and, Tropaeolum tuberosum, mashua) has been observed during the last decades due to many factors such us the introduction of new varieties, droughts, changes in food habits, encroaching agriculture, deforestation and the migration from rural to urban areas. Thus, a pilot study was c...

Abstract Introduction Sexual health is fundamental in an individual’s well-being. Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder, also known as dyspareunia, one of the most common sexual disorders, and approaches from physiotherapy include multimodal options, being education, a recent resource often used. Social economic factors might influence effectiveness educational therapies patients suffering th...

This article discusses the results of an ethnography carried out in a disadvantaged neighborhood located Santiago, Chile. The purpose research was to know strategies used by its residents address territorial stigma. reveal that they respond stigma building symbolic differences allow them distinguish themselves from rest, applying others stigmas receive outside. strategy is comparison with peopl...

Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workforce are paramount for betterment of scientific endeavor. Colombia is a country with great potential, but also multiple long-lasting socioeconomical difficulties. Here, we provide quantitative analysis temporal trajectories gender parity publishing Colombia. Data was dissected based on education level, researcher’s rank research area, order to e...

Background Affective disorders represent a pathology with cronic, recurent character, in a continuous growth which affect different categories of population causing serious socioeconomical desinsertion and expensive costs The notion of “maniac-depressive psychosis” was used for the first time by Krepelin in 1913, in the German region. K. Leonhard and Scandinavic Psychiatry and later on Angst an...

This study identifies drivers of deforestation in Mexico by applying Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models to cartographic and statistical data. A wall-to-wall multitemporal GIS database was constructed incorporating digital land use/land cover maps for 2002 and 2007; along with ancillary data (road network, settlements, topography and socioeconomical parameters). The database analysi...

Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a major public health problem due to its high incidence and prevalence, long-term effects on patients and their families and enormous socioeconomical costs. In our country, this is treated unequally by the different institutions and specialties. Its etiology, by order of incidence, is due to stroke, traumatic brain injury and anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and the...

Early postnatal malnutrition produces delay in growth and developmental processes, and children from a low socioeconomical level where undernutrition is prevalent are shorter than those from higher socioeconomic levels. We examined the effects of severe and early protein energy malnutrition on growth and bone maturation. We studied 40 preschool children who had been admitted to hospital in infa...