María Camila Neira

María Camila Neira
Los Andes University (Colombia) | UNIANDES · Department of Design

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Safeguarding the continued existence of humanity requires building societies that cause minimal disruptions of the essential planetary systems that support life. While major successes have been achieved in improving health in recent decades, threats from the environment may undermine these gains, particularly among vulnerable populations and commun...
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This assessment is a comprehensive report combining: a) the key evidence linking diseases and injuries to occupational risks; b) a quantitative assessment of the disease burden attributable to selected occupational risks; and c) a compilation of general interventions and selected examples of occupational and environmental interventions that suc...
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A life-course approach to health encompasses strategies across individuals’ lives that optimize their functional ability (taking into account the interdependence of individual, social, environmental, temporal and intergenerational factors), thereby enabling well-being and the realization of rights. The approach is a perfect fit with efforts to achi...
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Background The update of the global burden of disease attributable to the environment is presented. The study focuses on modifiable risks to show the potential health impact from environmental interventions. Methods Systematic literature reviews on 133 diseases and injuries were performed. Comparative risk assessments were complemented by more lim...
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights critical links between development, the environment, human well-being and the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water and sanitation. This report summarizes for Governments, policy makers and stakeholders the evidence of the linkages bet...
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Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over 1 billion people. Safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) contribute to prevention and management of most NTDs. Linking WASH and NTD interventions has potential to impact on multiple NTDs and can help secure sustainable and equitable progress towards universal access to WASH. The need to address the...
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Despite overall progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, large health discrepancies persist between developed and developing countries. The world is rapidly changing and the influences of societal change and climate change will disproportionately affect the world's most vulnerable populations, thus exacerbating current inequities...
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Adverse environmental exposures in early life increase the risk of chronic disease but do not attract the attention nor receive the public health priority warranted. A safe and healthy environment is essential for children's health and development, yet absent in many countries. A framework that aids in understanding the link between environmental e...
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Background: Electronic waste (e-waste) is produced in staggering quantities, estimated globally to be 41.8 million tonnes in 2014. Informal e-waste recycling is a source of much-needed income in many low- to middle-income countries. However, its handling and disposal in underdeveloped countries is often unsafe and leads to contaminated environment...
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Kumanan Rasanathan and colleagues explain how integrating action on determinants of women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health beyond the health sector into core health strategies is crucial to achieving sustainable development goal targets to end preventable deaths and ensure healthy lives #### Key messages Despite impressive improvements sinc...
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In March 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) released a report 1 on the status of water and sanitation in health-care facilities from 54 low-and middle-income countries. Data representing 66 000 health facilities show that water was not readily available in about 40%. 1 Over a third of facilitie...
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The UN-led discussion about the post-2015 sustainable development agenda provides an opportunity to develop indicators and targets that show the importance of health as a precondition for and an outcome of policies to promote sustainable development. Health as a precondition for development has received considerable attention in terms of achievemen...
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Objective To assess the impact of inadequate water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings.Methods The search strategy used Cochrane Library, MEDLINE & PubMed, Global Health, Embase and BIOSIS supplemented by screening of reference lists from previously published systematic reviews, to identify studies reporting on i...
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Deaths attributable to inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene by low- and middle-income countriesa for the year 2012. Table S2. Deaths attributable to the combined inadequate water and sanitation, and to the combined inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene by low- and middle-income countrya, for the year 2012.
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Objective To estimate the burden of diarrhoeal diseases from exposure to inadequate water, sanitation and hand hygiene in low- and middle-income settings and provide an overview of the impact on other diseases.Methods For estimating the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene on diarrhoea, we selected exposure levels with both sufficient global exp...
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Climate change further exacerbates the enormous existing burden of undernutrition. It affects food and nutrition security and undermines current efforts to reduce hunger and promote nutrition. Undernutrition in turn undermines climate resilience and the coping strategies of vulnerable populations. The objectives of this paper are to identify and un...
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Female sex workers (FSWs) are at high risk of HIV infection. Our objective was to determine the proportion of HIV prevalence in the general female adult population that is attributable to the occupational exposure of female sex work, due to unprotected sexual intercourse. Population attributable fractions of HIV prevalence due to female sex work we...
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Overlap between IDU and sex work, and HIV prevalence. Summary of studies reporting the proportion of IDUs engaging in sex, FSW injecting drugs and compared HIV prevalence in FSWs according to drug use. (DOC)
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Input data retrieved for developing estimates. Brief description of the range of input data required for estimating the burden of HIV attributable to sex work. (DOC)
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Multilevel model used for estimating HIV prevalence for the year 2011. Details on method and formula used for the multilevel modeling of HIV prevalence for the year 2011. (DOC)
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Country data on HIV prevalence and population size. HIV prevalence in IDU, FSW and the general female population, and the size of the FSW and IDU populations. (DOC)
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Detailed methods used for estimating the population attributable fraction. Details on formulas and methods used for estimating population attributable fractions, and equivalence between commonly used formulas. (DOC)
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Detailed methods for estimating attributable fractions of HIV due to female sex work. Detailed methods and formulas used for estimating the attributable fractions of HIV due to female sex work by two approaches which are used according to data availability. (DOC)
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Background: Nearly 13 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths occur worldwide each year; 63% of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. A substantial proportion of all cancers are attributable to carcinogenic exposures in the environment and the workplace. Objective: We aimed to develop an evidence-based global visio...
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We thank Erren et al. for their positive comments about our editorial on environmental and occupational causes of cancer (Landrigan et al. 2011). In particular, we acknowledge their support of our central thesis, expressed in the Declaration of Asturias [World Health Organization (WHO) 2011], that control of the toxic chemical causes of cancer must...
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Children's environmental health—from knowledge to action WHO estimates that up to 25% of the global burden of disease is due to preventable environmental exposures. Children are especially vulnerable because they receive a higher dose than adults, with more extreme consequences. The unborn child's health can also be aff ected, because the environme...
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Cada año mueren en el mundo aproximadamente tres millones de niños menores de cinco años, debido a afecciones relacionadas con riesgos ambientales. El medio ambiente contribuye en gran medida a la elevada tasa global anual de muertes de niños menores de cinco años, que se eleva a aproximadamente nueve millones(1). Tal carga de enfermedad es inacept...
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Between November 2007 and March 2008, 18 children died from a rapidly progressive central nervous system disease of unexplained origin in a community involved in the recycling of used lead-acid batteries (ULAB) in the suburbs of Dakar, Senegal. We investigated the cause of these deaths. Because autopsies were not possible, the investigation centere...
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imately 60,000 in weather-related natural disasters. 4–6 A warmer and more variable climate threatens to lead to higher levels of some air pollutants; increase transmission of diseases from poor water, sanitation, and hygiene; and increase the hazards of extreme weather. Taken together, climate change threatens to slow, halt, or reverse the progres...
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Today's children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats, whose consequences on health and development may appear early in life, throughout their youth and even later, in adulthood. Health problems linked to environmental hazards are multiplying and becoming more visible due to a rapidly changing environment, rapid population growth, o...

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