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ArticleEcoHealth2015

Malaria Control in Amerindian Communities of Venezuela : Strengthening Ecohealth Practice Throughout Conservation Science and Capability Approach.

Mariapia Bevilacqua, Yasmin Rubio-Palis, Domingo A Medina, Lya Cárdenas

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Article in EcoHealth, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Topical repellents for malaria prevention.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023
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  3. Review
  4. One Health in Indigenous Communities: A Critical Review of the Evidence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Review
  5. Article
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  7. Population Dynamics ofInsects · 2018
    Article
  8. Venezuela and its rising vector-borne neglected diseases.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mariapia BevilacquaAsociación Venezolana para la Conservación de Áreas Naturales-ACOANA, Caracas, Venezuela. mariapia.bevilacqua@gmail.com.
Yasmin Rubio-PalisBIOMED-Universidad de Carabobo, Maracay, Venezuela.
Domingo A MedinaAsociación Venezolana para la Conservación de Áreas Naturales-ACOANA, Caracas, Venezuela.
Lya CárdenasAsociación Venezolana para la Conservación de Áreas Naturales-ACOANA, Caracas, Venezuela.
Fundacion Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismologicas · VEUniversity of Carabobo · VE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive management and ecohealth frameworks were developed for malaria elimination in Amerindian riparian communities of Venezuela. These frameworks were developed as a strategy to capture, organize, and communicate connections among key factors related to local malaria complex systems. Important causal relationships between social, economic, and environmental stressors which are determinant of malaria were identified at different levels and assumptions that guide interventions are offered, based on available scientific knowledge and input from stakeholders. Drawing on our experience of action research committed to the health of Amerindian populations and conservation of areas with biodiversity value, the authors provide lessons to strengthen the practice of an ecohealth approach. First, conservation targets were considered as a way to achieve sustainable human well-being rather than as a consequence of well-being. Second, the effectiveness and sustainability of technical solutions generally proposed for malaria control depend largely on individual knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Hence, it is necessary to look at the real opportunities of choices that Amerindian people have for attaining a life without malaria, and therefore pay attention to local capabilities, needs, and freedom to choose. The ecohealth approach can benefit from the capability approach, and we explain why.

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EnvironmentIndians, South AmericanCultureEconomicsEcosystemEndemic DiseasesHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth Services ResearchHumansMalariaSocial Determinants of HealthVenezuelaadaptive managementcapability approachCauraecohealthGuiana ShieldmalariaSanemaYe’kwana

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PMID25851195
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