The devastating impact of illegal mining on indigenous health

a focus on malaria in the Brazilian Amazon

Authors

  • Paulo Ricardo Martins-Filho Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Hospital Universitário, Laboratório de Patologia Investigativa. Rua Cláudio Batista, s/n. Sanatório. Aracaju, Sergipe, Brasil. CEP: 49060-100. E-mail: prmartinsfh@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8779-0727
  • Nicole Prata Damascena Federal University of Sergipe, Sergipe, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5139-0035
  • Analany Pereira Dias Araujo National Center for the Dissemination of Forensic Sciences, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil; National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6028-7937
  • Melina Calmon Silva National Center for the Dissemination of Forensic Sciences, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-4460
  • Bianca Marques Santiago Center for Forensic Medicine and Dentistry, Institute of Science Police of Paraiba, Paraiba, Brazil; Federal University of Paraiba, Paraiba, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9559-913X
  • Alexandre Raphael Deitos National Center for the Dissemination of Forensic Sciences, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil; National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7451-2020
  • Carlos Eduardo Palhares Machado National Center for the Dissemination of Forensic Sciences, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil; National Institute of Criminalistics, Brazilian Federal Police, Distrito Federal, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-6211

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17179/excli2023-6046

Keywords:

indigenous people, Yanomami people, malaria

Published

2023-04-06

How to Cite

Martins-Filho, P. R., Damascena, N. P., Araujo, A. P. D., Silva, M. C., Santiago, B. M., Deitos, A. R., & Machado, C. E. P. (2023). The devastating impact of illegal mining on indigenous health: a focus on malaria in the Brazilian Amazon. EXCLI Journal, 22, 400–402. https://doi.org/10.17179/excli2023-6046

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