Latin American and Caribbean History
Clinical complications of G6PD deficiency in Latin American and Caribbean populations: systematic review and implications for malaria elimination programmes
... The most commonly reported clinical manifestations reported from LA countries were those related to AHA, namely drug-induced haemolysis. In patients with haemo- lytic anaemia, the reported frequency of G6PDd could be ...
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What is known about sexual and reproductive health in Latin American and Caribbean mining contexts? A systematic scoping review
... use, history of previous STDs, partnership or sex with a mineworker, multiple sexual partners, paying for sex, transactional sex, and non-use of condoms [4 – ...
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SPE Latin American and Caribbean Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability Conference
... This session will analyze the industry challenges alongside the best practices that guarantee the development of efficient and sustainable E&P activities, while also balancing the environment, in regions where ...
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INDIA’S SOFT POWER IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
... zyurveda is also becoming popular and numbers of Ayurvedic Spas and massage centres are increasingly growing in the region especially in South America. The Fundacion de Salud Ayurveda Prema (Prema Ayurveda Health ...
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Diagnosis of Generation in Latin America & the Caribbean: Jamaica
... the Caribbean also consider that fuel diversification requires significant planning timelines and accurate price forecasting which conflicts with urgency in the majority of cases to retire/replace old units and ...
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The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
... This paper analyzes the evolution of gender differences in schooling attendance and attainment in Latin America and the Caribbean, for both adults who left the educational system and children in school. For ...
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Preliminary Overview of the Economies. of Latin America and the Caribbean
... A quick evaluation of the data for the first three quarters of 2007 compared with the same period of 2006 reveals that the government’s fiscal policy was expansionary, with spending by the NFPS growing from 21.1% of GDP ...
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Mapping Vulnerability to Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean,
... Based on the extensive disaster database made available by the CRED at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and funded by the USAID’s OFDA, flood, drought, earthquake, volcan[r] ...
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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean
... When compared to other age groups, the situation widely differs across countries: while in the South American countries with relatively well-developed pension systems (Argentina, Braz[r] ...
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Early childhood development in Latin America and the Caribbean
... In Latin America and the Caribbean, the knowledge base on developmental shortfalls, on the relationship between deficits in early childhood and household socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting ...
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Technological Capabilities Asymmetries in Latin American and the Caribbean
... The results show that physical capital is important to explain the relative economic performance in the region, with changing intensity at different values of parameters. On the contrary, labour force and human capital ...
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Family, Poverty and Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
... In Latin America, the first two dec- ades of demographic bonus-1980 to 2000-coincided with re- current crisis and macro-economic adjustment, without the ne- cessary investments in schooling and employment ...
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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean
... To further document the age-poverty profile in figure 3.3 we show non-parametric (kernel) estimates of the poverty headcount ratio by age in each LAC country. The curves are clearly downward sloped along all the age ...
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Female Entrepreneurship: The Experience of Latin America and the Caribbean
... The GEM 2010 survey data revealed that, while the overall level of female entrepreneurship is high in Latin America and the Caribbean, countries in the Middle East and North Africa have the fewest women ...
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Sport for Development and Peace in Latin America and the Caribbean
... This Special Issue aims to offer a focus point for the growing literature on ‘Sport for Development and Peace’ (SDP) in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was conceived during field visits to Medellín ...
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Skills for the 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean
... 1990s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) experienced a decade of rising relative wages for people with tertiary education that was associated with skill-biased technical ...
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Impact of fossil fuels, renewable energy consumption and industrial growth on carbon emissions in Latin American and Caribbean economies
... like Latin America and the Caribbean proves highly asymmetrical and unbalanced; although this region has played a minor role in current environ- mental degradation, it is susceptible to environmental ...
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Cognitive Impairment in Australia and Latin American and Caribbean Countries: Life Expectancy, Diet and Physical Activity, and the Potential for Prevention
... The most widely reported health expectancy is disability-free life expectancy and, while there have been some published studies on mental health expectancies in a number of developed cou[r] ...
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Oral health among the elderly in 7 Latin American and Caribbean cities, 1999-2000: a cross-sectional study
... in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE) [10] was a cross- sectional study conducted between October 1999 and December ...Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) ...
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Music, Aesthetics, Peripherality: Notes on a Philosophy of History of Latin American Music (1910-1973)
... the Latin American composer - Carpentier’s example is Heitor Villa-Lobos - appears spontaneously, without precedent, without ...to Latin America, is the result of the conceptual duality of the native ...
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