Health system adaptation to climate change: a Peruvian case study.

Despite mitigation attempts, the trajectory of climate change remains on an accelerated path, with devastating health impacts. As a response to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change call for National Adaptation Plans, Peru has developed a national and decentralized regional adaptation plans. The purpose of this article is to understand the role and priority status of health within the adaptation planning and process.

[Towards a national commission on health research ethics in Peru: reflections on the routes and processes comparing viewpoints].

We performed a review of the constitution processes and functions of national commissions on health research ethics in Latin America and Europe countries, which are characterized by its relation with the legislation and governmental structures in health sector, but, especially, in almost totality of cases for being linked by the functioning of the Research Ethics Committees. On the basis of this review there are realized an initial balance sheet and perspectives of the conformation of a National Commission on Health Research Ethics in Peru.