Project

Environment and Health Program (PROMAS)

Description

The Environment and Health Program (PROMAS) was created in 2012, to develop activities of research, teaching and extension, with a transdisciplinary and ecosystem approach, in the related area with Environment and Health, within the Central Region of Argentina. This ecological scenario presents two particular environmental characteristics. Larger surfaces planted at the national level and, a high percentage of their populations consume water with high arsenic contents; both conditions widely related to chronic diseases not transmissible (fertility, cancer, congenital anomalies). Furthermore, the sociodemographic peculiarities (poverty, education, health coverage) of the region, are also included in the approach to problematic.

In the first period (2012/2021), different lines of research were developed concerning fertility, cancer and malformations; as well as those related to analyzing the representations of the communities, referring to this environment/health interface.

In the future program (2023/2027), two lines will be addressed exploring environmental and sociodemographic characteristics related to childhood cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

 

Related

Director: Alejandro Oliva 

Members: Laura De García; Nestor Di Leo; Florence Molinatti; Sergio Montico and Claudio Staffolani.

Spaces/Institutions/Academic Units

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEI-UNR)

 

Contact

applies.promas@gmail.com – aoliva.promas@gmail.com

Web: https://cei.unr.edu.ar/programas/programa-medio-ambiente-y-salud