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Abstract Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs). Despite copious research on CVD incidence and outcome discrepancies, a social determinants of health (SDOH) focused framework on CVD risk factors and health outcomes in AIAN populations has not been undertaken.
Eric Leung +3 more
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In seventeenth‐century Cartagena de Indias, a portcity in today's Colombia, enslaved Africans recently disembarked from the Middle Passage faced a Jesuit‐designed multisensory catechesis. The process involved listening to translations of the Christian doctrine delivered by African interpreter‐catechists enslaved by the Jesuits, often in conjunction ...
Larissa Brewer‐García +1 more
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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter ...
Stephanie Porras
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Environmental Federalism in Indian Country: Sovereignty, Primacy, and Environmental Protection
Extensive research on “environmental federalism” investigates the effects of shared state‐federal implementation on policy outcomes under the landmark American environmental laws of the 1970s. But these laws originally made no mention of American Indian tribal lands, and subsequent research on environmental federalism has given them little attention ...
Mellie Haider, Manuel P. Teodoro
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ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt was regarded as an anti‐fascist symbol among German‐speaking exiles who, fleeing persecution from the Nazi regime, found refuge in Mexico. Humboldt's legacy was read as being an endorsement of the country's struggle for political and cultural emancipation, while his famously anti‐racist stance proved helpful in framing ...
Andrea Acle‐Kreysing
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Discursos e representações sobre o uso/abuso do álcool: um estudo da comunidade indígena
RESUMO Estudo descritivo e qualitativo realizado com 45 índios Potíguara em dois municípios da Paraíba, com o objetivo de conhecer as representações sociais elaboradas por esses indivíduos acerca do uso/abuso do álcool em sua comunidade, O instrumento ...
Juliana Rízia Félix de Melo +5 more
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Foi estudada a recente evolução do estado nutricional de menores de 5 anos nas aldeias Parakanã, Maroxewara e Paranatinga. Dados antropométricos (peso, altura) foram obtidos em três estudos transversais para avaliação da prevalência de desnutrição e ...
Sandro J. Martins, Raimundo C. Menezes
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Este estudo investigou os casos de hanseníase na população indígena da microrregião do Alto Rio Juruá/Acre notificados pelo Sistema de Informação e Notificação de Agravos (SINAN), bem como avaliou seus respectivos contatos no período de 2009 a 2012 ...
Stéfanie Ferreira Teles +6 more
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Magnitude da tuberculose pulmonar na população fronteiriça de Mato Grosso do Sul (Brasil), Paraguai e Bolívia [PDF]
Este estudo analisou a magnitude da tuberculose pulmonar no período de 2007 a 2010 em municípios sul-mato-grossenses fronteiriços ao Paraguai e à Bolívia.
Marli Marques +5 more
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