Diferencias regionales y Síndrome Pulmonar por Hantavirus (enfermedad emergente y tropical en Argentina)

Ecosystem approaches and health in Latin America

“…These premises have also appeared in recent books published on the theme in Canada 34,35 , whose focus has influenced the research produced in Latin America 21,22,23,24,25 . Thus, it is no coincidence that the five selected articles have their research results published in the special issue of Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health entitled An Ecological Approach to Human Health: Emerging and Communicable Diseases, which resulted from an event organized and financed by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) at the Brazilian National School of Public Health in November 1999.…”

“…Only one of the nine studies was published by a Brazilian researcher 3 . The others are distributed geographically as follows: four by Latin America researchers, namely from Peru 21 , Colombia 22,23 , Paraguay 24 , and Argentina 25 ; two by Canadian researchers 26,27 ; one by a Swedish researcher 28 ; and one involving cooperation between researchers from Kenya, Sweden, and Italy 29 .…”

“…Of the five articles selected for a more detailed analysis, the study by Sosa-Estani et al 25 on hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Argentina was the only one with combined information on different spatial scales and diverse environmental/ecological variables for the problem at issue. The authors worked with a set of information that is relatively common to studies in the health field (serology; death records for infected individuals; identification of viral genotypes and phenotypes; identification of the rodent species involved).…”

“…Of the five articles analyzed, those by Rojas 23 and Sosa-Estani et al 25 focus on the diagnosis of environmental problems, without proposing institutional changes or even formulating public policies to prevent or control the problem.…”

“…The article by Sosa-Estani et al 25 did not involve any direct participation by the public or local community in the research. In three other articles, local community participation took place during the development of targeted local prevention strategies focused on education.…”