
Andrea VasquezUniversity of Leeds · media
Andrea Vasquez
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Introduction: Natural disasters have increased over the last decades. As the world population is also ageing, older people have become more exposed to disasters, with the United Nations highlighting the critical role of healthcare infrastructure in disaster contexts. Traditionally, research on disaster resilience has focused mainly on disasters’ ne...
International migrants are a socially vulnerable group within the context of disasters. However, disasters research focusing on this group is limited. This problem is the primary focus of the present study.
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To explore responses, behaviors and experiences concerning natural hazards among migrants living in Valparaíso, Chile.
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Following...
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Immigrant population have exponentialy grown in the past thirty years in Chile, concentrating in the northern and central areas of the country. Iquique is one of the densest cities in the country in terms of international migrants, reaching around 10% of total population. In this city, healthcare network is divided into 4 primary care ce...
Introduction and purpose of this study: Colegio Ingles is the largest and oldest school in the city of Iquique, the capital of Chile's northern Tarapaca Region. In accordance with the School Evacuation Plan, a drill was held in 2013 with the entire student body (n = 1600). The majority of the students had experienced the 2014 Pisagua earthquake. Co...
A pesar de contar con experiencias y perspectivas propias sobre los territorios que habitan, los niños/as y adolescentes son considerados principalmente una población vulnerable frente a los desastres y otros eventos del entorno. Por este motivo, y en concordancia con la Convención de los Derechos del Niño y el Marco de Sendai 2015 -2030 para la Re...
On April 1 st , 2014, the 8.2 M w Pisagua earthquake affected the population in the north of Chile and generated disruption of services in the region. The largest effects of the earthquake were observed in the city of Iquique, capital of the Tarapaca Region, where more than 80% of the population of the region lives. This research describes the resp...
La población mapuche urbanizada se ha incrementado con el tiempo, siendo la Región Metropolitana de Santiago la segunda mayor concentración de esta población a nivel nacional. Esta dinámica territorial de los mapuche plantea ciertas interrogantes acerca de su distribución y acceso a servicios básicos del ambiente construido, tales como el acceso a...
Introducción: El colegio inglés se encuentra situado a 70 metros de la costa y sus alumnos han tenido 2 ensayos de evacuación por tsunami en los últimos 3 años, sumado a la experiencia del terremoto de Pisagua 2014. No obstante lo anterior, la percepción acerca de la ruta de evacuación y del punto de encuentro es diferenciada acorde edad e individu...
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Immigrants in Chile have diverse characteristics and include socioeconomically deprived populations. The location of socioeconomically deprived immigrants is important for the development of public policy intelligence at the local and national levels but their areas of residence have not been mapped in Chile....
This is the S3 Letter for Census 2012 Spanish.
This is the original letter provided by the National Institute of Statistics in Chile about how to get the information from Census 2012.
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This is the S1 Letter for Censuses 1992 and 2002 Spanish.
This is the original letter provided by the National Institute of Statistics in Chile about how to get the information from Census 1992 and 2002.
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This is the S4 Letter for Census 2012 English.
This is the translated letter into English provided by the National Institute of Statistics in Chile about how to get the information from Census 2012.
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This is the S2 Letter for Censuses 1992 and 2002 English.
This is the translated letter into English provided by the National Institute of Statistics in Chile about how to get the information from Census 1992 and 2002.
(PDF)
Santiago de Chile has the third largest stock of corporate real estate in Latin America, after Sao Paulo and Mexico City. This stock has risen quickly in the past two decades, due to factors such as Chile's competitiveness, the internationalization of national companies and also as a result of the evolution of the office market business model where...