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Traditional Herbal Medicine in Mesoamerica: Toward Its Evidence Base for Improving Universal Health Coverage

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2020
The quality of health care in Mesoamerica is influenced by its rich cultural diversity and characterized by social inequalities. Especially indigenous and rural communities confront diverse barriers to accessing formal health services, leading to often ...
Matthias S. Geck   +7 more
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Mesoamérica o el Proyecto Mesoamérica: la historia como pretexto

open access: yesLiminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2010
Este trabajo se centra en el análisis del contexto histórico en el cual se inserta el Proyecto Mesoamérica, poniendo en duda la versión oficial de que es una propuesta que pretende abatir los índices de rezago económico y social del sur-sureste de ...
Jorge Luis Capdepont Ballina
doaj   +5 more sources

Mesoamérica o el Proyecto Mesoamérica: la historia como pretexto [PDF]

open access: yesLiminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2011
Este trabajo se centra en el análisis del contexto histórico en el cual se inserta el Proyecto Mesoamérica, poniendo en duda la versión oficial de que es una propuesta que pretende abatir los índices de rezago económico y social del sur-sureste de México
Jorge Luis Capdepont Ballina
doaj   +2 more sources

Mesoamérica: historia y reconsideración del concepto

open access: yesCiencia Ergo Sum, 1999
Se aborda la conformación y evolución del concepto Mesoamérica, a partir de la búsqueda de sus fuentes de inspiración y escuelas de pensamiento. Este concepto se presenta como diferente del original, planteado por Kirchof en 1943, principalmente por ...
Alejandro Tonatiuh Romero Contreras
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Review of agronomic research on the milpa, the traditional polyculture system of Mesoamerica

open access: yesFrontiers in Agronomy, 2023
The milpa system is the basis of traditional agriculture in Mesoamerica. It is based on a polyculture of maize (Zea mays L.), bean (Phaseolus spp.) and squash (Cucurbita spp.) and is associated with a great diversity of crops and wild species.
S. Fonteyne   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessing digital accessible botanical knowledge and priorities for exploration and discovery of plant diversity across Mesoamerica.

open access: yesNew Phytologist, 2023
Digital accessible biodiversity knowledge has the potential to greatly advance botanical research and guide conservation efforts. Evaluating its shortfalls is key to understanding its limits and prioritising regions in need of renewed survey efforts.
Santiago Ramírez-Barahona   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022
The regions of the Andes and Caribbean-Mesoamerica are both hypothesized to be the cradle for many Neotropical lineages, but few studies have fully investigated the dynamics and interactions between Neotropical bioregions.
Xuankun Li   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trade, uneven development and people in motion: Used territories and the initial spread of COVID-19 in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean

open access: yesSocio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2021
Mesoamerica and the Caribbean form a region comprised by middle- and low-income countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic differently. Here, we ask whether the spread of COVID-19, measured using early epidemic growth rates (r), reproduction numbers (Rt)
L. F. Chaves   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chronic kidney disease of non-traditional origin in Mesoamerica: a disease primarily driven by occupational heat stress

open access: yesRevista Panamericana De Salud Publica-pan American Journal of Public Health, 2020
The death toll of the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of nontraditional origin (CKDnt) in Mesoamerica runs into the tens of thousands, affecting mostly young men. There is no consensus on the etiology. Anecdotal evidence from the 1990s pointed to work
C. Wesseling   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Atlantic‐Pacific Gradients Drive Last Millennium Hydroclimate Variability in Mesoamerica

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2020
The paleoclimatic record from Mexico and Central America, or Mesoamerica, documents dramatic swings in hydroclimate over the past few millennia. However, the dynamics underlying these past changes remain obscure.
Tripti Bhattacharya, S. Coats
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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