Census Atlas Maps of America. Central America

Digital Atlas of Portuguese America

This paper presents the Digital Atlas of Portuguese America (Atlas Digital da América Portuguesa), a project that produces an interactive map of South America claimed by the Portuguese between 1500 and 1808, giving a detailed account on the development and structure of this digital cartographic platform. The paper narrates the stages that the project went through and details the structure of in...

Central America and Mexico

Programme purpose: During the first semester of 2008, the aim of the Regional Representation for Central America and Mexico is to support scaling up the efforts of National Societies in the region to develop and execute programmes in an efficient and integrated way. And so, helping to create resilient communities and a culture of prevention, while spreading the fundamental principles and humani...

Yellow Fever in Central America

Protection of mammal diversity in Central America.

Central America is exceptionally rich in biodiversity, but varies widely in the attention its countries devote to conservation. Protected areas, widely considered the cornerstone of conservation, were not always created with the intent of conserving that biodiversity. We assessed how well the protected-area system of Central America includes the region's mammal diversity. This first required a ...

Code of Ethics of medical informatics in Asia and America

Nowadays, using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in health care with the aim of creating tools for diagnosing and treating diseases has proposed a new debate on the code of ethics. The raised ethical issues are beyond privacy and security, and have been the most important sources of debate and ethical questions in these professions.