This Article supports SDG 3 and 10 by exploring trends and inequities in adolescent childbearing in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting that adolescent girls from families in lower income groups, living in rural areas, and from indigenous and Afro-descendant groups are disproportionately affected by adolescent motherhood.
This study evaluates the relationship between the road network and deforestation and other negative impacts on indigenous people in Brazil.
This is a Personal View discussing socioeconomic risk factors for dementia in women in Latin American Countries, with emphasis on gender roles and expectations that can infleuence the onset and prevalence of dementia
This Article supports SDG 3 and 10 by showing that among Indigenous children in Brazil (of the Guarani birth cohort), severely compromised living conditions were noted, and inequalities in the frequency of social and environmental risk factors between the Indigenous children. The authors note that policies are needed to improve housing, water and sanitation, and wealth conditions among people in Indigenous communities.
This article aligns with the SDG goal 3 of Good health and wellbeing and SDG 10 Reduced inequalities by showing that hepatitis C mortality trends in Mexico have started to decrease, but that much remains to be done in terms of prevention, diagnosis and timely access to treatment in this country.
This study provides significant information on the occurrence and composition of MPs in the Tampico beach, in addition, we compared the abundance of MPs of this study with similar studies from different parts of the world.
The rescue of wild animals after major environmental disasters is complex and requires an an integrative approach. Conservation scientists describe a successful example that lead to the reproduction of the only pair of Jaguars under reproductive age saved from the devastating Pantanal wildfires that killed over 16.9 million vertebrates in 2018..
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Volume 18,
2023,
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In response to the UN-resolution from 2021, these authorsprovide recommendations for lawmakers and policymakers in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia on how to improve public policies and national legislation for persons living with rare diseases in these three countries, based on interviews with patient advocacy groups.
This Article supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 by developing a methodology for discriminating between and classifying Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia according to demographic, clinical, and cognitive data, across centres in Latin America. The approach provided high accuracy with the combination of classical statistical and machine learning procedures.
