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Reduce health vulnerability in communities of the páramos: a call for action

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Authors: Pablo Montoya, Diana Marcela Prieto, María Camila Rodríguez, Amparo Lozano, Diana Peña, Pablo Martínez, Johanna Caballero & Ana Judith Blanco

Colombia - 2015

ISBN: 978-958-9365-94-6

Language: Spanish

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This document presents the process of assisting and training of villagers and community health workers in various rural communities in the páramos of Cundinamarca. Together with the communities the most common health problems that may be related directly or indirectly with climate change were identified. This experience is used as study case from which recommendations are given for the creation of strategies and policy measures to guarantee the access to primary health by inhabitants of this high mountain ecosystem.  

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