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Global tobacco economics consortium, GTEC. : workplan and policy engagement strategies for Mexico

Published date
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 - 05:00
Reports

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Integrating tobacco control into the NCD and human capital agenda

The presentation measures the health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases, as well as risk factors for diseases such as diabetes, stroke, cancer, chronic lung disease, and obesity.
Published date
Monday, July 15, 2019 - 04:00
Research in Action

TOBACCO CONTROL Health

Measuring tobacco-attributable costs and illicit trade effects in Latin America

Tobacco consumption causes 6 million deaths worldwide and in Latin America alone it is responsible for almost 380,000 deaths annually.
Published date
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 - 14:30
Research in Action

TOBACCO CONTROL

Strengthening evidence for advancing tobacco control policy

If no action is taken, tobacco will kill more than 8 million people globally by 2030, with 80% of these deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries.
Published date
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 11:30
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Towards improved Chagas and dengue disease control through innovative ecosystem management and community-directed interventions : an eco-bio-social research programme on Chagas and dengue disease control in Latin America and the Caribbean; final...

This report provides an overview of a five-year research and capacity building programme involving eight research studies, forming a Community-of-Practice (CoP) for ecohealth research on vector-borne diseases, with a focus on dengue in urban and p
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Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 05:00
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Infant environmental health program using an ecosystem approach (ISA) : final technical report (April 2009 - April 2013); executive summary

The program was created to assess and improve the sustainability of production systems of banana and plantain, using agroecological approaches to human health, particularly with regard to pesticide exposure and neurodevelopment of 0-2 years-old ba
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Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 04:00
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Manganese exposure in the population resident in a mining district (México)-phase II : executive summary

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).
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Friday, January 2, 2009 - 05:00
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Final activities report : research project; ecohealth and marginal urban settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean

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.
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Monday, January 2, 2006 - 05:00