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Mercury Exposure in Munduruku Indigenous Communities from Brazilian Amazon: Methodological Background and an Overview of the Principal Results

2021; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 18; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/ijerph18179222

ISSN

1661-7827

Autores

Paulo Cesar Basta, Paulo Victor de Sousa Viana, Ana Cláudia Santiago de Vasconcellos, Andre Reynaldo Santos Périssé, Cristina Barroso Hofer, Natália Santana Paiva, Joseph William Kempton, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Rogério Adas Ayres de Oliveira, Rafaela Waddington Achatz, Jamila Alessandra Perini, Heloísa do Nascimento de Moura Meneses, Gustavo Hallwass, Marcelo de Oliveira Lima, Iracina Maura de Jesus, Cleidiane Carvalho Ribeiro dos Santos, Sandra de Souza Hacon,

Tópico(s)

Indigenous Health and Education

Resumo

The Amazonian indigenous peoples depend on natural resources to live, but human activities' growing impacts threaten their health and livelihoods. Our objectives were to present the principal results of an integrated and multidisciplinary analysis of the health parameters and assess the mercury (Hg) exposure levels in indigenous populations in the Brazilian Amazon. We carried out a cross-sectional study based on a census of three Munduruku indigenous villages (

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