We determined the environmental correlates of vascular plant biodiversity in the Baetic-Rifan region, a plant biodiversity hotspot in the western Mediterranean. A catalog of the whole flora of Andalusia and northern Morocco, the region that includes most of the Baetic-Rifan complex, was compiled using recent comprehensive floristic catalogs. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and detrended cor...

OBJECTIVES to provide up-to-date information and to analyze recent changes in colorectal cancer mortality trends in Andalusia during the period of 1980-2008 using joinpoint regression models. PATIENTS AND METHODS age- and sex-specific colorectal cancer deaths were taken from the official vital statistics published by the Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía for the years 1980 to 2008. We com...

INTRODUCTION There is a need to develop composite indicators to monitor mental health care in countries such as Spain, where there is wide variability of care systems in 17 different regions. The aim of this study is to generate and to test the usability of synthetic indexes in Andalusia (Southern Spain). METHOD Seven mental health indicators were selected by expert opinion from a previous li...

Studying the life situations of trans persons reveals preceding and ongoing political, societal cultural transformations. This ethnographic study concerns individuals in Andalusia, Southern Spain, who do not fit sex gender assigned to them at birth. Christoph Imhof thus investigates issues leading back repressive situation during dictatorship Franco contemporary endeavours achievements regardin...