Browsing Instituto Regional de Estudios en Sustancias Tóxicas by Title
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Seguro de Riesgos del Trabajo del Instituto Nacional de Seguros
(2013-08-22)Como parte de sus servicios, el INS promueve el "Modelo de Riesgos del Trabajo y Salud Ocupacional, el cual tiene como objetivo básico promover, desarrollar y fortalecer la prevención de riesgos laborales y por ende la ... -
Severidad de lesiones ocupacionales
(2013-08-22)Trabajo saludable es un derecho humano. Trabajo saludable también es la base para una economía sana y sostenible. Condiciones de trabajo insalubres y peligrosas causan lesiones y enfermedades en los trabajadores que pueden ... -
Social context for workplace health promotion: feasibility considerations in Costa Rica, Finland, Germany, Spain and Sweden
(Oxford Academic, 2003-06-01)We constructed a simple, flexible procedure that facilitates the pre-assessment of feasibility of workplace health promotion (WHP) programmes. It evaluates cancer hazards, workers’ need for hazard reduction, acceptability ... -
Social movements and risk perception: unions, churches, pesticides and bananas in Costa Rica
(International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 19, no. 1 2013, 2013-11-12)Background: Between 1992 and 2010 in the Costa Rican Caribbean, a social movement coalition called Foro Emau´s sought to change people’s view on problems of high pesticide use in banana production. Objective: To understand ... -
Sociodemographic and Perinatal Predictors of Early Pregnancy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Concentrations
(American Chemical Society, 2015-09-02)Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), used in food packaging and stain-resistant coatings, are suspected developmental toxicants that are ubiquitous and persistent in the environment. We measured plasma PFAS ... -
SUPPRESSION OF THE ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE (MELOIDOGYNE SP.) WITH CHEMICAL-ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN ONION CROP.
(50TH ANNUAL MEETING OF NEMATOLOGIST OF TROPICAL AMERICA (ONTA 2018), 2018-08)The management of root–knot nematodes is a complex process in any farming system of susceptible plants, since most of the products not fumigants do not have current registration for vegetables. In the last five years, ... -
Taller: Guía de Técnicas agroecológicas para el manejo de las principales plagas en las plantaciones de plátano en Talamanca, Limón
(2012)Resultados de práctica profesional supervisada, Escuela de Ciencias Agrarias, como parte de los materiales del taller. -
Talleres participativos sobre riesgos en el uso de plaguicidas: Una construcción colectiva e interetaria. Informe Técnico IRET No. 40
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-10)La zona del Caribe costarricense, en especial el cantón de Matina, se caracteriza por la cantidad de plantaciones agrícolas, dentro los cuales destacan los monocultivos de banano (Llaguno et al., 2014). Este desarrollo se ... -
The effect of the insecticide diazinon on the osmoregulation and the avoidance response of the white leg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) is salinity dependent
(Elsevier, 2020-12-15)Diazinon is one of the insecticides that represent a high risk for Costa Rican estuarine environments due to its widespread use in pineapple plantations. In estuaries, organisms are frequently submitted to stress caused ... -
TRATO ANIMAL SIN MAL
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica). Escuela de Filosofía., 2018)Elabora un manual bioético basado en el principio de no maleficencia, casos de tenencia en cautiverio de animales silvestres y la legislación nacional, para contribuir a la erradicación del maltrato animal en Costa Rica. ... -
Understanding how access shapes the transformation of ecosystem services to human well-being with an example from Costa Rica
(Elsevier, 2017-10-26)Increasingly, ecosystem services have been applied to guide poverty alleviation and sustainable develop-ment in resource-dependent communities. Yet, questions of access, which are paramount in determiningbenefits from the ... -
Use of cholinesterase activity as a biomarker of pesticide exposure used on Costa Rican banana plantations in the native tropical fish Astyanax aeneus (Günther, 1860)
(Journal of Environmental Biology, 2014-01)In Costa Rica, thousands of tones of agricultural pesticides have been used for decades and their use is continuously increasing due to intensive and expanding production of coffee, pineapple, rice, ornamental plants and ... -
Usefulness of the working conditions and health survey in central America in prevention. Author response to comments by Jensen
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015-06-05)We appreciate Dr Jensen's comments1 on the Central American Survey on Working Conditions and Health (ECCTS)2 and his concern that our sampling methodology may have produced biased results. The ECCTS has broadly followed ... -
Variación estacional y características fisicoquímicas e hidrológicas que influyen en los macroinvertebrados acuáticos, en un río tropical
(Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica, 2020-10-22)Introduction: The distribution of aquatic macroinvertebrates in rivers may be determined by the type of substrate, the shape of the river channel, the hydrological regime, and interactions with biotic and abiotic factors. ... -
Voluntades anticipadas :derecho a decidir
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What are the Main Sensor Methods for Quantifying Pesticides in Agricultural Activities? A Review
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-07-23)In recent years, there has been an increase in pesticide use to improve crop production due to the growth of agricultural activities. Consequently, various pesticides have been present in the environment for an extended ... -
Who is where in the Plastisphere, and why does it matter?
(Wiley Periodicals, 2020-04-24)To fully understand how plastic is affecting the ocean, we need to understand how marine life interacts directly with it. Besides their ecological relevance, microbes can affect the distribution, degradation and transfer ... -
Work and health in Latin America: Results from the working conditions surveys of Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay
(BMJ Journals, 2017-01-16)Objective To describe working and employment conditions, and health status between non-agricultural employees with a written contract from Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Central America and Uruguay. Methods We compared data ... -
Workplace Carcinogen and Pesticide Exposures in Costa Rica
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)The CAREX data system converts national workforce volumes and proportions of workers exposed to workplace carcinogens into numbers of exposed in 55 industrial categories. CAREX was adapted for Costa Rica for 27 carcinogens ...
