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Chile Confronts its Environmental Health Future After 25 Years of Accelerated Growth.
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- Seroprevalence of hepatitis E in blood donors in Santiago, Chile: a monocentric cross-sectional study.IJID regions · 2026Article
- Progress, challenges, and lessons for climate resilient and low carbon health systemsin Latin America and the Caribbean: an exploratory mixed-methods study.Revista de saude publica · 2026Article
- Climate change can disproportionately reduce habitats of stream fishes with restricted ranges in southern South America.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Toward sustainability and resilience in Chilean cities: Lessons and recommendations for air, water, and soil issues.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Compound climate-pollution extremes in Santiago de Chile.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Placental Function Beyond Pregnancy: Insights from Latin America.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Review
- Assessment of Factors Influencing Personal Exposure to Air Pollution on Main Roads in Bogota: A Mixed-Method Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Assessment of Personal Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution in Different Microenvironments and Traveling by Several Modes of Transportation in Bogotá, Colombia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (ITHACA).JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Energy poverty influences urban outdoor air pollution levels during COVID-19 lockdown in south-central Chile.Energy policy · 2021Article
- Environmental Health Risk Perception: Adaptation of a Population-Based Questionnaire from Latin America.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides and health conditions in agricultural and non-agricultural workers from Maule, Chile.International journal of environmental health research · 2017Article
- Study protocol for the Maule Cohort (MAUCO) of chronic diseases, Chile 2014-2024.BMC public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundChile has recently been reclassified by the World Bank from an upper-middle-income country to a high-income country. There has been great progress in the last 20 to 30 years in relation to air and water pollution in Chile. Yet after 25 years of unrestrained growth, there remain clear challenges posed by air and water pollution, as well as climate change.
objectiveThe aim of this study was to review environmental health in Chile.
methodsIn late 2013, a 3-day workshop on environmental health was held in Santiago, Chile, bringing together researchers and government policymakers. As a follow-up to that workshop, here we review the progress made in environmental health in the past 20 to 30 years and discuss the challenges of the future. We focus on air and water pollution and climate change, which we believe are among the most important areas of environmental health in Chile.
resultsAir pollution in some cities remains among the highest in the continent. Potable water is generally available, but weak state supervision has led to serious outbreaks of infectious disease and ongoing issues with arsenic exposure in some regions. Climate change modeling in Chile is quite sophisticated, and a number of the impacts of climate change can be reasonably predicted in terms of which areas of the country are most likely to be affected by increased temperature and decreased availability of water, as well as expansion of vector territory. Some health effects, including changes in vector-borne diseases and excess heat mortality, can be predicted. However, there has yet to be an integration of such research with government planning.
conclusionsAlthough great progress has been made, currently there are a number of problems. We suspect that the Chilean experience in environmental health may be of some use for other Latin American countries with rapid economic development.
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