What is it about?
Based on an epidemiological study conducted nearly 40 years ago in a rural Maya community of Yucatán, when the high prevalence of malnutriton and pellagra was documented, a new study in 2000 in a similar community showed , the oposite profile, i.e a high prevalence of obesity and diabetes. The social and economic changes that have taken place in that period are described, and explain, to some extent, the present epidemiological profile of rural Yucatán. This local case illustrates the dynamics of the epidemic of chronic diseases of present Mexico.
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Why is it important?
The Mexican case illustrates the epidemics of diabetes and obesity at the Global level.
Perspectives
The rural Yucatan case exemplifies how the construction of an epidemic of chronic diseases develops out of generational changes in lifestyle, and why short term initiatives are ineffective.
Master Pedro Arroyo
Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje
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This page is a summary of: Prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the socioeconomic transition of rural Mayas of Yucatan from 1962 to 2000, Ethnicity and Health, February 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1442560.
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