Mortality From COVID-19 in Amazonian and Andean Original Indigenous Populations of Peru
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Objective: To compare the mortality rates from COVID-19 among indigenous populations of the Amazon and Andean regions of Peru during the years 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Vicente Benites Zapata +2 more
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Rituals and knowledge of Andean midwives in maternal and neonatal care [PDF]
Frontiers in Global Women's HealthIntroductionThis study examines the persistence of the knowledge and rituals of Andean midwives within a context of medicalization that has progressively delegitimized ancestral knowledge systems and traditional forms of maternal and neonatal care among ...
Edgar Gutiérrez-Gómez +5 more
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North American and Andean Indigenous Plant-Based Foods and Their Contemporary Scientific Rationale for Health Improvement [PDF]
Current Developments in NutritionPlant-based food systems have been an integral part of human ecology since the dawn of domestication across all continents from over 12,000 y ago. This served the needs of human health and wellness from whole plant form to the use of parts in a range of ...
Lena Gálvez Ranilla +2 more
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Rapid adaptive increase of amylase gene copy number in Indigenous Andeans [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe salivary amylase gene AMY1 exhibits remarkable copy number variation linked to dietary shifts in human evolution. While global studies highlight its structural complexity and association with starch-rich diets, localized selection patterns remain ...
Kendra Scheer +16 more
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Health systems collaboration can strengthen climate change resilience: Insights from Indigenous knowledges in the Latin American region. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthStrengthening the resilience of health systems is a recognised pathway for responding to the impacts of climate change. However, current approaches often rely on biomedical models that exclude Indigenous Peoples and their knowledges.
Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo
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La plurinationalité en Bolivie : vers une nouvelle conception de l’indianité ?
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2021 This article proposes to analyse the place of Andean indigenous peoples in one of the policies of the Plurinational State: indigenous native peasant justice.
Élise Gadea
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Religions, 2021 In the years directly following the Second Vatican Council under the guidance of its second bishop Mons. Enrique Pelach i Feliu, the Andean diocese of Abancay—founded in 1959 in one of the most rural and most indigenous areas of Peru—experienced the ...
Christine Lee
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Is resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity related to peripheral or cerebrovascular haemodynamics at high altitude? A retrospective analysis. [PDF]
Exp PhysiolAbstract High‐altitude hypoxia elicits several profound physiological responses, including substantial increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA); however, the association of this heightened MSNA with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular haemodynamics remains unclear in lowlanders and indigenous highlander populations.
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A Kaleidoscopic Reflection on Territory and Property
Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2023 The multiple meanings of Indigenous territory and property are explored here by means of a multidisciplinary lens. An ethnological journey through different geographies and times is undertaken to explain some property formation processes and illuminate ...
Patricia Urteaga Crovetto
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Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and Memory [PDF]
, 2017 Andean and Amazonian Material Culture and Performance Traditions as Sites of Indigenous Knowledges and ...
Wibbelsman, Michelle +1 more
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