A series of investigations, using an ecosystem approach to human health, have been conducted in the Molango Mining District in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico.
The Talamanca County in Costa Rica has large-scale banana and small-scale plantain production, probably causing pesticide exposure in indigenous children.
Manganese (Mn) is considered an essential metal; nevertheless, excessive Mn exposure in humans is known to affect central nervous
Water quality is largely absent in the water policy debate and analysis in the Latin
American region. Although there is no disagreement as to the negative impact of unsafe and poorquality
The state of Hidalgo in the center of Mexico is one of the largest Manganese reservoirs in the world. 50 years of extraction has resulted in health and environmental impacts on 42 communities (127,400 inhabitants).
The production of exploratory case studies gives insight into the situation within Latin America of the interface between such complex variables as health, the environment and precarious urban settlements.