ArticleBMJ global health2023
Social determinants of health among people working on informal gold mines in French Guiana: a multicentre cross-sectional survey.
Article in BMJ global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05540470 (Radical CUREfor MAlaria Among Highly Mobile and Hard-to-reach Populations in the Guyanese Shield), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Radical CUREfor MAlaria Among Highly Mobile and Hard-to-reach Populations in the Guyanese Shield
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- A multicentric cross-sectional survey to assess cardiovascular risk factors among persons working in informal gold mines in French-Guiana.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Paralytic rabies outbreak mimicking guillain-Barré syndrome in French Amazonia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Seroprevalence, Associated Factors, and Molecular Detection ofJournal of tropical medicine · 2026Article
- Mining corridors as emergence interfaces: an evidence-informed one health operational framework for prevention of infectious disease outbreaks in Kédougou, Senegal.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Psychosocial vulnerability of people working in informal gold mines in French Guiana: a multicentric cross-sectional survey in 2024-2025.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Atypical parkinsonian syndromes in French Guiana: Similarities and differences with Caribbean variants.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- Leptospirosis seroprevalence and exposure factors in three informal settlements of French Guiana: An opportunistic survey.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Prevalence of lead poisoning among artisanal gold miners in French Guiana in 2022: a multicenter cross-sectional observational survey.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- A cross-sectional study assessing mercury exposure and poisoning among workers in informal gold mines in French Guiana.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Brazilian Gold Miners Working Irregularly in French Guiana: Health Status and Risk Determinants.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- CUREMA project: a further step towards malaria elimination among hard-to-reach and mobile populations.Malaria journal · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
15 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionSocial determinants of health, such as living and working conditions, economical and environmental context and access to care, combine to impact the health of individuals and communities. In French Guiana (FG), the persons working in informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the rainforest are a particularly vulnerable population which lives in precarious conditions and far from the health system. Previous studies have demonstrated their high morbidity due to infectious diseases. This study aims to describe the social determinants of health in this specific population.
methodsThis international multicentre cross-sectional survey included people working on the informal FG gold mines at the crossing points located at both borders with Suriname and Brazil. After collecting written informed consent, a structured questionnaire was administered.
resultsFrom September to December 2022, 539 gold miners were included. These poorly educated migrants, mainly from Brazil (99.1%) did not have access to drinkable water (95.4%), lived in close contact with wild fauna by hunting, eating bushmeat or being bitten and were exposed to mercury by inhalation (58.8%) or ingestion (80.5%). They report frequent accidents (13.5%) and chronic treatment interruptions (26.6% of the 11.9% reporting chronic treatment). Half of them considered themselves in good health (56.4%).
conclusionThis study shows a singular combination of adverse exposures of gold miners working in FG such as zoonoses, heavy metal poisoning, aggression of wild fauna. For ethical as well as public health reasons, actions towards health equity must be considered at different levels: individual, community, environmental, systemic and global level. As end users of minerals, we must assume our responsibilities for the well-being of the extractors by including health in political decisions to engage together in global health. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT05540470.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.