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Climate change and health vulnerability in Bolivian Chaco ecosystems
(Springer, 2016-03-25)
A b s t r a c t Climate change and variability is impacting health, across different spatial scales, ecosystems, and water supply and quality. In Bolivia climate change is operating in a framework of poverty and inequality. ...
Hidden People, Hidden Identity: socio-cultural and Linguistic change among Quechua migrants in lowland Bolivia
(University of Florida, 2017-11-01)
This research is about cultural and linguistic change among western Bolivian highland and valley peasants who have been migrating to the country’s eastern lowlands in the recent years, a very widespread phenomenon in ...
Aymara children are protected from high-altitude-induced pulmonary hypertension
(High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2005-02-22)
Pulmonary hypertension is a hallmark of the adaptation to ambient lack of oxygen. This assumption is also
thought to hold true for high-altitude native children,
since invasive studies showed elevated pulmonary-artery
pressure ...
La escolaridad como hito en las biografías de los hijos de bolivianos en Buenos AiresSchooling as a milestone in the biographies of Bolivian children in Buenos Aires
(Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios, 2014-06)
Este trabajo se propone un dialogo entre tres trabajos de investigación realizados desde perspectivas socio antropológicas aplicadas al análisis de las experiencias de los hijos de inmigrantes bolivianos en distintos puntos ...
The effect of gender targeting of food transfers on child nutritional status: experimental evidence from the Bolivian amazon
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2021)
Some research suggests women are more likely to allocate additional resources to their children than are men. This perception has influenced policies such as in-kind food transfer programmes and cash transfer programmes, ...
Epidemiology of and impact of insecticide spraying on vectorial Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in an area in the Bolivian Chaco
(Public Library Science, 2013-08-01)
Residual insecticide spraying has effectively eliminated vector borne transmission of Chagas disease in many areas in South America, while in others it has failed to interrupt or sustain interruption of transmission. We ...
Circulation and behaviour of two major clones of Tripanosoma cruzi in Bolivian cycles
(Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 1996-11)
On the basis of isoenzyme studies and population genetic interpretation (Tibayrenc et al. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 83 : 115-119, 1986), we have previously designed a molecular identification tool of two major clones of ...