Grant: Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity - LOI
Université du Québec à Montréal
$15,000.00
Development and implementation of an integrated primary prevention plan for neglected populations facing health deterioration attributable to deforestation in the Amazon: the SLUBH project (Sustainable Land Use, Better Health)
FY 2010-11
Summary
Since 1994, researchers from Canada, Brazil and France have conducted programmatic research and intervention programs in the Amazon in close partnership with stakeholders and representatives of local farming and fishing communities (IDRC-funded and GHRI-funded projects). It has been established that the widespread deforestation is leading to insidious health deterioration. As such, local populations are now exposed to mercury through fish consumption after lixiviation of the heavy metal from deforested soils and are at risk of contracting the trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) as deforested lands favor the contact between humans and triatomines, insects carrying the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Within the scope of Global Health Research, the SLUBH project consists in connected sequences of conceptually related projects. It involves from its conception stage a team of interdisciplinary researchers, as well as decision-making partners of the public health, rural development and environmental protection sectors and community collaborators already positively participating for some times to our previous projects. We first intend to produce and integrate knowledge acquired through parallel scientific research and governmental /non-governmental interventions to draw a dynamic portrait of the potential evolution of the environmental health risks, both toxic and infectious, likewise to increasingly affect small scale farming communities under status quo. Then, we shall identify complementarities as well as antagonisms within the governance system regarding population health interventions, rural development incentives and environmental laws, which are superimposed on the colonization processes of the Brazilian Amazon. Our ultimate goal is to develop and implement an integrated and participatory primary prevention plan to improve the health status of vulnerable populations based on the promotion of sustainable practices for small scale farming in a pioneer front of the Amazon
Department
Program
Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity - LOI
Recipient
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
209096
Name
Lucotte Marc M
Region
Québec
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Population and Public Health
Theme2
Social / Cultural / Environmental / Population Health
Prcname2
Programmatic Grant in Health & Health Equity (LOI)
Projecttitle
Development and implementation of an integrated primary prevention plan for neglected populations facing health deterioration attributable to deforestation in the Amazon: the SLUBH project (Sustainable Land Use, Better Health)
Programtype2
Operating Grants
Orgnameinp2
Université du Québec à Montréal
Cihramount2
$15,000
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Operating Grant: Programmatic Grants to tackle health and health equity - LOI
Keyworddelim
Amazon; Chagas Disease; Deforestation; From Science To Action; Health Plan; Intersectoral Research; Mercury Exposure; Neglected Populations; Participatory Research; Primary Prevention
Abstract
Since 1994, researchers from Canada, Brazil and France have conducted programmatic research and intervention programs in the Amazon in close partnership with stakeholders and representatives of local farming and fishing communities (IDRC-funded and GHRI-funded projects). It has been established that the widespread deforestation is leading to insidious health deterioration. As such, local populations are now exposed to mercury through fish consumption after lixiviation of the heavy metal from deforested soils and are at risk of contracting the trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) as deforested lands favor the contact between humans and triatomines, insects carrying the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Within the scope of Global Health Research, the SLUBH project consists in connected sequences of conceptually related projects. It involves from its conception stage a team of interdisciplinary researchers, as well as decision-making partners of the public health, rural development and environmental protection sectors and community collaborators already positively participating for some times to our previous projects. We first intend to produce and integrate knowledge acquired through parallel scientific research and governmental /non-governmental interventions to draw a dynamic portrait of the potential evolution of the environmental health risks, both toxic and infectious, likewise to increasingly affect small scale farming communities under status quo. Then, we shall identify complementarities as well as antagonisms within the governance system regarding population health interventions, rural development incentives and environmental laws, which are superimposed on the colonization processes of the Brazilian Amazon. Our ultimate goal is to develop and implement an integrated and participatory primary prevention plan to improve the health status of vulnerable populations based on the promotion of sustainable practices for small scale farming in a pioneer front of the Amazon
Competitiondate
201007
Approvedterm2
0 yr 5 mths
Pinamesdelim
Lucotte, Marc M
Approvedterm
0 an 5 mois
Cihrcontribution2
Inst of Population &Publ Hlth~ $15,000~ $0~
