Browsing Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y el Mar by Author "Quesada, Rosario"
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3. Informe Técnico ISA 04 Colaboración Programa ISA Y Asistentes Técnicos de Atención Primaria en Salud del Área de Salud de Talamanca: Aprendizaje y estrategias de difusión sobre el uso de plaguicidas y la salud humana
Quesada, Rosario; Romero Boniche, Jenny Raquel; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2014-01)In the context of the Infants and Environmental Health Program (ISA - www.isa.una.ac.cr) we started working together with the Primary Care Technical Assistants in Health (ATAPS) in the upper Talamanca area, with the ... -
Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA)
van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mora, Ana Maria; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Öberg, Mattias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian (Environmental Health Perspectives, 2014-12-01)Background: Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale banana ... -
Aerial application of mancozeb and urinary ethylene thiourea (ETU) concentrations among pregnant women in Costa Rica: the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA).
van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Oberg, Mathias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Mergler, Donna; Lindh, Christian (Research: Children´s health, 2014-12)Background: Mancozeb and its main metabolite ethylene thiourea (ETU) may alter thyroid function; thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development. In Costa Rica, mancozeb is aerially sprayed at large-scale ... -
Blood and hair manganese concentrations in pregnant women from the infants' environmental health study (ISA) in Costa Rica
Mora, Ana María; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R; Lindh, Christian H; Bradman, Asa; Eskenazi, Brenda; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Lundh, Thomas (American Chemical Society, 2014-03)Manganese (Mn), an essential nutrient, is a neurotoxicant at high concentrations. We measured Mn concentrations in repeated blood and hair samples collected from 449 pregnant women living near banana plantations with ... -
Manganese concentrations in drinking water from villages near banana plantations with aerial mancozeb spraying in Costa Rica: Results from the Infants' Environmental Health Study (ISA)
van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Barbeau, Benoit; Bouchard, Maryse; Mora, Ana María; Skytt, Asa; Córdoba, Leonel; Quesada, Rosario; Lundh, Thomas; Lindh, Christian; Mergler, Donna (Elsevier, 2016-03)Elevated manganese (Mn) in drinking water has been reported worldwide. While, naturally occurring Mn in groundwater is generally the major source, anthropogenic contamination by Mn-containing fungicides such as mancozeb ... -
Maternal blood and hair manganese concentrations, fetal growth, and length of gestation in the ISA cohort in Costa Rica
Mora, Ana Maria; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Cordoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R.; Menezes-Filho, José; Eskenazi, Brenda (Environmental Research, 2015-01)Background: Animal studies have shown that both deficiency and excess manganese (Mn) may result in decreased fetal size and weight, but human studies have reported inconsistent results. Methods: We examined the association ... -
Maternal blood and hair manganese concentrations, fetal growth, and length of gestation in the ISA cohort in Costa Rica
Mora, Ana María; van Wendel de Joode, Berna; Mergler, Donna; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Smith, Donald R; Menezes-Filho, José A.; Eskenazi, Brenda (Elsevier, 2015)Background: Animal studies have shown that both deficiency and excess manganese (Mn) may result in decreased fetal size and weight, but human studies have reported inconsistent results. Methods: We examined the association ... -
Noticias Centroamericanas: Volumen #12
Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leonel; Cano, Juan Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Faniband, Moosa; Wesseling, Catharina (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2015-04-17)En Costa Rica, el fungicida mancozeb se aplica por vía área y de manera semanal en plantaciones de banano a gran escala (Figura 1). La toxicidad aguda del mancozeb y su principal metabolito, el etilentiourea (ETU), es baja ... -
Los plaguicidas
Quesada, Rosario; van Wendel de Joode, Berna (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2011)El material ha sido diseñado para ser utilizado como medio de difusión en el Programa Infantes y Salud Ambiental. Su contenido se basa en: Los conceptos de plaguicidas también llamados agroquímicos. La clasificación de ... -
Volumen #11: EkoSanté: una colaboración latinoamericana, caribeña y canadiense en ecosalud
Barraza, Douglas; Saint-Charles, Johanne; Rioux-Pelletier, Marie Eve; Parkes, Margot; Betancourt, Óscar; Cole, Donald; Mertens, Frédéric; Quesada, Rosario; Medel, Julia; Hernández, David; Riojas, Horacio; Morrison, Karen (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2014-09-01) -
Volumen #12: Aplicaciones aéreas de mancozeb y concentraciones urinarias de etilentiourea (ETU) en mujeres embarazadas:
Berna van Wendel de, oode; Mora, Ana María; Córdoba, Leone; Cano, Juan Camilo; Quesada, Rosario; Wesseling, Catharina; Ruepert, Clemens; Oberg, Mattias; Eskenazi, Brenda; Lindh, Christian H. (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2015-04-01)En Costa Rica, el fungicida mancozeb se aplica por vía área y de manera semanal en plantaciones de banano a gran escala (Figura 1). La toxicidad aguda del mancozeb y su principal metabolito, el etilentiourea (ETU), es baja ... -
Volumen #12: Promoción del enfoque ecosistémico en salud en Las Américas, a través de talleres de diálogo
Barraza, Douglas; Saint- Charles, Johanne; Quesada, Rosario; Rioux, Marie- Eve; Parkes, Margot; Betancourt, Óscar; Cole, Donald; Mertens, Frédéric; Medel, Julia; Hernández, David; Riojas, Horacio; Marrison, Karen (SALTRA / IRET-UNA, 2015-04-01)Como parte de la colaboración de las comunidades de práctica sobre el enfoque ecosistémico en salud en América Latina y El Caribe (CoPEH-LAC), y CoPEH-Canadá, conocida como EkoSanté (Barraza et al, 2014), se promueven en ...