ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2015
Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon.
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- Malaria, relationship with climatic variables and deforestation in Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 to 2020: a systematic review.Malaria journal · 2024Pooled it
- Does deforestation promote or inhibit malaria transmission in the Amazon? A systematic literature review and critical appraisal of current evidence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Pooled it
- Using Spatial Technologies to Assess Risk Factors for Diarrheal Disease Under Environmental Variability in Bangladesh: A Machine Learning Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Munduruku Indigenous children: health situation in an area with high mercury exposure.Revista de saude publica · 2025Article
- Unprecedented spread and genetic evolution of the Oropouche virus.Nature medicine · 2024Article
- Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomies for people and ecosystems in the Amazon.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
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- Protecting Life and Lung: Protected Areas affect fine particulate matter and respiratory hospitalizations in the Brazilian Amazon Biome.Environmental & resource economics · 2024Article
- Comparison of deforestation and forest land use factors for malaria elimination in Myanmar.IJID regions · 2023Article
- Impact of climate change on public health in Brazil.Public health challenges · 2023Article
- Planetary Health and Mental Health Nexus: Benefit of Environmental Management.Annals of global health · 2023Article
- Health Impact Assessment in protected areas: a proposal for urban contexts in Brazil.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
- Investigating mangrove-human health relationships: A review of recently reported physiological benefits.Dialogues in health · 2022Review
- Feasibility of dried blood spot for hepatitis C diagnosis in vulnerable subjects and people living in remote areas from Brazil.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Global trends in research on the effects of climate change on Aedes aegypti: international collaboration has increased, but some critical countries lag behind.Parasites & vectors · 2022Review
- Socioecological vulnerability and the risk of zoonotic disease emergence in Brazil.Science advances · 2022Article
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- Neurological Impacts of Chronic Methylmercury Exposure in Munduruku Indigenous Adults: Somatosensory, Motor, and Cognitive Abnormalities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Malaria transmission in landscapes with varying deforestation levels and timelines in the Amazon: a longitudinal spatiotemporal study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The claim that nature delivers health benefits rests on a thin empirical evidence base. Even less evidence exists on how specific conservation policies affect multiple health outcomes. We address these gaps in knowledge by combining municipal-level panel data on diseases, public health services, climatic factors, demographics, conservation policies, and other drivers of land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon. To fully exploit this dataset, we estimate random-effects and quantile regression models of disease incidence. We find that malaria, acute respiratory infection (ARI), and diarrhea incidence are significantly and negatively correlated with the area under strict environmental protection. Results vary by disease for other types of protected areas (PAs), roads, and mining. The relationships between diseases and land-use change drivers also vary by quantile of the disease distribution. Conservation scenarios based on estimated regression results suggest that malaria, ARI, and diarrhea incidence would be reduced by expanding strict PAs, and malaria could be further reduced by restricting roads and mining. Although these relationships are complex, we conclude that interventions to preserve natural capital can deliver cobenefits by also increasing human (health) capital.
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