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Retraction Note: Globalization and vulnerable populations in times of a pandemic: A Mayan perspective.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med
December 2020
Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Globalization and vulnerable populations in times of a pandemic: A Mayan perspective.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med
October 2020
Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Global health conditions are marked by inequities due mostly to poverty and lack of access to healthcare services. In a Pandemic setting, Mayan Communities in the Quintana Roo State in Mexico are a good example of how these disparities are exacerbated. First, they may have difficulty in adhering to directives to stay home from work because of the nature of their job, and the necessity to work, their living conditions are marked by crowding and sometimes lack of basic sanitation.
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Neurosurg Focus
December 2010
Department of Neurosurgery, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia "Manuel Velazco Suarez," Mexico City, Mexico.
Induced deformation of the cranial vault is one form of permanent alteration of the body that has been performed by human beings from the beginning of history as a way of differentiating from others. These procedures have been observed in different cultures, but were particularly widespread in Mesoamerica. The authors examined and reviewed the historical and anthropological literature of intentional deformation practices in Mayan culture.
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