Browsing by Subject "Climate change"

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    • La amenaza del cambio climático a la salud de la población y la necesidad urgente de actuar 
      Palmeiro Silva, Yasna K.; Cifuentes, Luis A.; Cortes, Sandra; Olivares, Macarena; Silva Santa Cruz, Ignacio (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, Chile, 2020)
      Climate change is associated with negative health outcomes, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. This article analyses the threat of climate change on population health and the urgent need to implement measures ...
    • Assessing the risk zones of chagas’ disease in chile, in a world marked by global climatic change 
      Tapia-Garay, Valentina; Figueroa, Daniela P.; Maldonado, Ana; Frías-Laserre, Daniel; Gonzalez, Christian R.; Parra, Alonso; Canals, Lucía; Apt Baruch, Werner; Alvarado, Sergio A.; Cáceres, Dante; Canals Lambarri, Mauricio (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2018)
      © 2018, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND Vector transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi appears to be interrupted in Chile; however, data show increasing incidence of Chagas’ disease, raising concerns that ...
    • Chile Confronts its Environmental Health Future After 25 Years of Accelerated Growth 
      Pino, Paulina; Iglesias, Verónica; Garreaud Salazar, René; Cortés, Sandra; Canals Lambarri, Mauricio; Folch, Walter; Burgos de la Vega, Soledad; Levy, Karen; Naeher, Luke P.; Steenland, Kyle (Elsevier, 2015)
      B A C K G R O U N D Chile has recently been reclassified by the World Bank from an upper-middle-income country to a high-income country. There has been great progress in the last 20 to 30 years in relation to air and water ...
    • Climate change and infectious diseases. A novel epidemiological scenario Cambio climático y enfermedades ... 
      Cerda Lorca, Jaime; Valdivia C., Gonzalo; Valenzuela Bravo, María Teresa; Venegas L., Jairo (2008)
      For the international scientific community, it is undoubted that planetary temperature is increasing, being projected an average raise of 1.0°C-3.5°C by the year 2100. Forecasted consequences are diverse, most of them ...
    • Gut microbiota of drosophila subobscura contributes to its heat tolerance and is sensitive to transient ... 
      Jaramillo, Angélica; Castañeda Sepúlveda, Luis (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      The gut microbiota can contribute to host physiology leading to an increase of resistance to abiotic stress conditions. For instance, temperature has profound effects on ectotherms, and the role of the gut microbiota on ...