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Call for a change in research funding priorities: the example of mental health in Costa Rica
(2014) Contreras Rojas, Javier; Raventós Vorst, Henriette; Rodríguez Arauz, Gloriana; Leandro Rojas, Mauricio
The World Health Organization (WHO) Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 urges its Member States to strengthen leadership in mental health, ensure mental and social health interventions in community-based settings, promote mental health and strengthen information systems, and increase evidence and research for mental health. Although Costa Rica has strongly invested in public health and successfully reduced the burden of nutritional and infectious diseases, its transitional epidemiological pattern, population growth, and immigration from unstable neighboring countries has shifted the burden to chronic disorders. Although policies for chronic disorders have been in place for several decades, mental disorders have not been included. Recently, as the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica developed a Mental Health Policy for 2013-2020, it became evident that the country needs epidemiological data to prioritize evidence-based intervention areas. This article stresses the importance of conducting local epidemiological studies on mental health, and calls for changes in research funding priorities by public and private national and international funding agencies in order to follow the WHO Mental Health Action Plan.
Las creencias machistas de los docentes de educación física y su relación con la obesidad en los estudiantes
(2019-01) Núñez Rivas, Hilda Patricia; Holst Schumacher, Ileana; Campos Saborío, Natalia
El personal docente de Educación Física debe poner en práctica propuestas de cambio que rompan con la reproducción de una cultura machista y discriminatoria y abran espacios a nuevas generaciones de estudiantes más solidarias, respetuosas, tolerantes, humanistas y con mayor confianza en sus capacidades físicas, talentos y deseos de ser saludables y libres, mediante una práctica resignificada, sistemática y habitual de la actividad física para una vida plena y saludable.
Entre la vulnerabilidad y la resistencia. Arte y sida en Hispanoamérica (1984-2018)
(2019) Poe Lang, Karen
Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South
(2023) Jost, Lou; Yanez Muñoz, Mario Humberto; Brito, Jorge; Reyes Puig, Carolina; Reyes Puig, Juan Pablo; Guayasamin, Juan Manuel; Ron, Santiago R.; Quintana, Catalina; Iturralde, Gabriel A.; Baquero R., Luis E.; Monteros, Marco; Freire Fierro, Alina; Fernández Fernández, Diana; Mendieta Leiva, Glenda; Morales, J. Francisco; Karremans Lok, Adam Philip; Vázquez García, J. Antonio; Salazar Chávez, Gerardo Adolfo; Hágsater, Eric; Solano Gómez, Rodolfo; Fernández Concha, Germán Carnevali; Arana, Marcelo Daniel
Guedes et al. argue that eponymous scientific names, despite their long tradition in biology, have no place in the modern world. They want to erase eponyms assigned to species in the past and want scientists to stop naming new species after people. Both of these proposals would hurt science, and disproportionately hurt science in the Global South — the region that is supposed to be the primary beneficiary of their proposal.
Fatal meningoencephalitis in child and isolation of Naegleria fowleri from hot springs in Costa Rica
(2015-02) Abrahams Sandí, Elizabeth; Retana Moreira, Lissette; Castro Castillo, Alfredo; Reyes Batlle, María; Lorenzo Morales, Jacob
In summary, this investigation identified an N. fowleri ameba in water sources at a resort in Costa Rica that had been visited by a child from the United States who died of PAM as a results of N. fowleri infection. These amebas pose a high risk to human health and were found in an area frequented by tourists, which should alert health authorities in Costa Rica of the need for monitoring locations such as this for possible contamination and notifying the public of the risk for infection.
Imploding and redrawing care regimes in Latin America: opportunities and challenges for women’s economic empowerment
(2021) Martínez Franzoni, Juliana; Figueira, Fernando
We provide an overview of the care regime in Latin America and its associated adaptive (market- and family-based) strategies available to women at the bottom and the top of the income distribution. In an effort to convey the high inequality that currently cuts across adaptive and/coping mechanisms in work and care in Latin America, we regularly make comparisons with adaptive strategies to reconcile work and family in European countries. The relatively equal income distribution and relatively homogeneous care regimes within these countries stand in contrast to the highly unequal income distribution and class divide found in Latin America. Yet, legal and policy changes can indeed deliver changes in Latin American care regimes, as long as they simultaneously tackle several adaptive mechanisms at once. The example we draw upon here is the case of Uruguay.
Inequalities in COVID-19 mortality: defining a global research agenda
(2022-10-01) Friedman, Joseph; Balaj, Mirza; Islam, Nazrul; Gu, Youyang; Nahmia, Petra; Santamaría Ulloa, Carolina; Gutierrez Roja, Andres; Rasanathan, Kumanan; Reza Hosseinpoor, Ahmad; Emina, Jacques B. O.; Andreas Eikemo, Terje; Castillo Salgado, Carlos
Comentario sobre inequidad durante pandemia.
Letters to the Editor. Rebuttal to Sauleda
(2019) Pupulin, Franco
In the Orchids issue for May of this year, Rubén Sauleda and Claudia Elena Gutiérrez commented on a few points of a book review I wrote for the second volume of Orchids, a Colombian Treasure, by Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso and Carlos Uribe Vélez. In particular, Rubén and Claudia Elena confirm the Colombian record of Encyclia belizensis, answering my suspicion that “the name of Colombian populations is misapplied, as it seems difficult to explain such a broad disjunction between the populations of northern Nicaragua and those of Colombia.” It is now clear that the “Colombian” record of this species is from the island of San Andrés, just 80 km from the east coast of Nicaragua. This is no doubt correct on political grounds, but it is biogeographically wrong, as I suspected, and confirms my hypothesis that a taxon exclusively known from northern Central America cannot, normally, bridge the isthmus to South America. The flora of the overseas territories should, in my opinion, always be treated in a special chapter, in order not to give an erroneous impression about the natural distribution of plants. Nobody, I guess, would include Dichaea pendula in an orchid flora of France, even though the type was described from the “ultramarine” French territories of Guyana.
Primer aislamiento e identificación molecular de Naegleria fowleri en Costa Rica
(2015-01) Abrahams Sandí, Elizabeth; Retana Moreira, Lissette
La meningoencefalitis amebiana primaria, causada por Naegleria fowleri, es un cuadro agudo y fulminante. Esta es una ameba de vida libre (AVL) que presenta amplia distribución a nivel mundial. Presenta una moratildad alta (cerca del 95%) en la mayoría de los casos diagnosticados alrededor del plantea. La Sección de Protozoología Médica de la Faculta de Microbiología fue contactada por el Ministerio de Salud debida a la presencia de una AVL en las aguas termales de la zona de San Carlos, Alajuela

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