Browsing Artículos científicos by Subject "AMÉRICA CENTRAL"

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    • A pilot field evaluation on heat stress in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica: What to do next? 

      Van Wendel de Joode, Berendina; Wesseling Hoogervors, Catharina; Crowe, Jennifer (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2009)
      Climate change is producing major impacts including increasing temperatures in tropical countries, like Costa Rica, where the sugarcane industry employs thousands of workers who are exposed to extreme heat. Objectives: ...

    • CKD of unknown origin in Central America: The case for a mesoamerican nephropathy 

      Correa-Rotter, Ricardo; Wesseling, Catharina; Johnson, Richard (National Kidney Foundation, 2014-01-13)
      An epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown origin has emerged in the last decade in Central America and has been named Mesoamerican nephropathy. This form of chronic kidney disease is present primarily in young male ...

    • Climate Change, workplace heat exposure, and Occupational Health and productivity in Central America 

      Kjellstrom, Tord; Crowe, Jennifer (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2011)
      Climate change is increasing heat exposure in places such as Central America, a tropical region with generally hot/humid conditions. Working people are at particular risk of heat stress because of the intrabody heat ...

    • Decreased kidney function of unknown cause in Nicaragua: a community-based survey 

      Torres, Cecilia; Aragón, Aurora; Gonzalez-Quiroz, Marvin; López , Indiana; Jakobsson, Kristina; Elinder, Carl-Gustaf; Lundberg, Ingvar; Wesseling, Catharina (National Kidney Foundation, 2010)
      Background: End-stage kidney disease overwhelms health services in Central America. We determined prevalences of decreased kidney function in distinct populations in the most affected region of Nicaragua. Study Design: ...

    • Dolor musculoesquelético en trabajadores de América Central: resultados de la I Encuesta Centroamericana de Condiciones de Trabajo y Salud 

      Rojas, Marianela; Gimeno, David; Vargas-Prada, Sergio; Benavides, Fernando G. (Panamerican Health Organization, 2015)
      El artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la prevalencia de dolor musculoesquelético (DME) en los seis países de habla hispana de América Central con un instrumento único, la I Encuesta Centroamericana de Condiciones de ...

    • Heat exposure in sugarcane harvesters in Costa Rica 

      Crowe, Jennifer; Wesseling, Catharina; Román Solano, Bryan; Pinto Umaña, Manfred; Robles Ramírez, Andrés; Kjellstrom, Tord; Morales, David; Nilsson, Maria (Wiley Periodicals, 2013)
      Background Occupational heat stress is a major concern in sugarcane production and has been hypothesized as a causal factor of a chronic kidney disease epidemic in Central America. This study described working conditions ...

    • Informal employment and health status in Central America 

      López-Ruiz, María del Carmen; ARTAZCOZ, LUCIA; Martínez, José Miguel; Rojas, Marianela; Benavides, Fernando G (Springer Nature, 2015-07-24)
      Background: Informal employment is assumed to be an important but seldom studied social determinant of health, affecting a large number of workers around the world. Although informal employment arrangements constitute a ...

    • Work and health in Latin America: Results from the working conditions surveys of Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay 

      Merino-Salazar, Pamela; ARTAZCOZ, LUCIA; Cornelio, Cecilia; Itatí Iñiguez, María José; Rojas, Marianela; Martínez-Iñigo, David; Vives, Alejandra; Funcasta, Lorena; Benavides, Fernando G. (BMJ Journals, 2017-01-16)
      Objective To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural employees with a written contract from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay. Methods We compared data ...