Fish tissues for biomonitoring toxic and essential trace elements in the Lower Amazon
Environ Pollut. 2021 Mar 26;283:117024. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117024. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBrazilian soils can have high concentrations of toxic elements, mainly mercury (Hg) and arsenic (As), metals also associated with anthropogenic activities (e.g. intensive agriculture, mining, deforestation and hydroelectric plants). This can lead to large amounts of these elements reaching and/or being mobilized in the aquatic ecosystem, which constitutes a serious threat to the environment and to the health of local populations. Thus, we evaluate the feasibility of analyzing the tissues of freshwater fish species for m...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 15, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fabio Edir Amaral Albuquerque Carlos Herrero-Latorre Marta Miranda Raimundo Alves Barr êto Júnior Francisco Leonardo Costa Oliveira Maria Cl áudia Araripe Sucupira Enrico Lippi Ortolani Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino Marta L ópez-Alonso Source Type: research
Fish tissues for biomonitoring toxic and essential trace elements in the Lower Amazon
Environ Pollut. 2021 Mar 26;283:117024. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117024. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBrazilian soils can have high concentrations of toxic elements, mainly mercury (Hg) and arsenic (As), metals also associated with anthropogenic activities (e.g. intensive agriculture, mining, deforestation and hydroelectric plants). This can lead to large amounts of these elements reaching and/or being mobilized in the aquatic ecosystem, which constitutes a serious threat to the environment and to the health of local populations. Thus, we evaluate the feasibility of analyzing the tissues of freshwater fish species for m...
Source: Environmental Pollution - April 15, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fabio Edir Amaral Albuquerque Carlos Herrero-Latorre Marta Miranda Raimundo Alves Barr êto Júnior Francisco Leonardo Costa Oliveira Maria Cl áudia Araripe Sucupira Enrico Lippi Ortolani Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino Marta L ópez-Alonso Source Type: research
Exploring the determinants and outcomes of intimate partner violence during pregnancy for Guyanese women: Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional household survey
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of violence during pregnancy in Guyana is high and is associated with adverse health outcomes. These findings suggest the need for intimate partner violence prevention, and for integrating intimate partner violence screening and treatment into antenatal care, reproductive health services, and maternal and child health programs and services to identify and treat at-risk women.PMID:33790954 | PMC:PMC7993238 | DOI:10.26633/RPSP.2021.6 (Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health)
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - April 1, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lior Miller Manuel Contreras-Urbina Source Type: research
An Ethnographic Approach to Characterizing Potential Pathways of Zoonotic Disease Transmission from Wild Meat in Guyana
AbstractThe hunting, butchery, and consumption of wild meat is an important interface for zoonotic disease transmission. Despite this, few researchers have used ethnography to understand the sociocultural factors that may increase zoonotic disease transmission from hunting, particularly in Amazonia. Here, we use ethnographic methods consisting of structured, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, and participant observation to address questions pertaining to wild meat consumption, pathways of zoonotic disease transmission, food security, and the cultural identity of indigenous Waiwai in the Konashen Community Owned C...
Source: EcoHealth - April 1, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research
Unique factors to the implementation of a disaster preparedness plan at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana
This article aims to identify strengths, educational needs, practice improvement opportunities, and local factors that may contribute to the development/implementation of a disaster preparedness plan at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana. (Source: The Nurse Practitioner)
Source: The Nurse Practitioner - March 25, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: Feature: DNP SPECIAL ISSUE Source Type: research
Embedding research into health services in Latin America and the Caribbean: experiences and challenges of the Technical Support Center < sup > < /sup >
This article describes the main models for embedding research and the successful experiences and challenges faced in joint work by researchers and decisionmakers who participated in the Embedding Research for the Sustainable Development Goals (ER-SDG) initiative, and the experience of the Technical Support Center. In June 2018, funding was granted to 13 pre-selected research projects from 11 middle- and low-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Paraguay, and Peru). The projects focused on the system-, policy-, or pro...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - March 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: V íctor Becerril-Montekio Pilar Torres-Pereda Luis Alberto Garc ía-Bello Jacqueline Alcalde-Rabanal Source Type: research
