Taxonomy for citizen actions on public health and climate change: a proposal.

Facing complex issues such as climate change and its effects on public health require the participation of various actors. The research tool citizen science is one way for people to get involved. Through it, citizens collaborate with scientists to find solutions to problems in their territories.

[Effects of climate change on Public Health 2015-2020. A systematic review.].

Background: Anthropogenic climate change is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly important in many areas such as economics and politics, but it also has great scientific relevance due to the important effects it has on people's health, the relationship between climate change and Health has caused an increase in the production of scientific knowledge about this topic and therefore the objective of this article was to provide an updated review of the open access scientific evidence, in the last five years, related to the effects of anthropogenic climate change in Public Health.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted, in Spanish and English, in four non-subscription databases; using online thesaurus terms, the inclusion and exclusion criteria, an evaluation with the STROBE checklist were applied.

Results: Finally, 18 publications were analyzed.

[Respiratory symptoms and lung function in children aged 6-14 years and their relationship with particulate matter PM10 in Santa Marta, Colombia].

Background: The effects of particulate matter (PM10) on respiratory health are a public health interest because of the high risk of disease and death in the exposed population, more so when it comes to children. The goal was to identify the relationship between concentrations of PM10 and presence of respiratory symptoms and impaired lung function in children aged 6-14 years in the city of Santa Marta.

Method: A cross sectional study was developed.

[Evaluation of the obligations of the health sector in the public policy for eradication of child labor and protection for young working people].

Objective: As part of the evaluation of the obligations which the health sector acquired within the national policy for eradication of child labor, it is necessary to analyze their pertinence in relation to the context, the goals of the system and, overall, the needs felt by children of both sexes, young workers and their families.

Methods: For this evaluation the systemic approach is used where one side the commitments are compared with the social, political and economic context in which they were formulated and, on the other side, all those involved in the subject are called. From this a comparative strategy or triangulation is generated in order to obtain the coincident aspects as well as the conflicting ones, analyzing the different positions.