Culture, Environment and Health in the Yucatan Peninsula

lt;b>Hugo Azcorra is a human biologist working in the the Department of Human Ecology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Merida, Mexico (Cinvestav-Merida). He is interested in the biology of populations during early stages of growth and development and how biological conditions are shaped by environmental factors and intergenerational influences. The most of his research have been focused on how chronic adverse living conditions experienced by Mayan populations from Yucatan have impacted their biological conditions. 
Federico Dickinson is a Mexican biological anthropologist and human ecologist with a Sc.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Dickinson is the founder of the Department of Human Ecology at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Merida, Mexico (Cinvestav-Merida), where he has developed his research lines on human growth in the last 33 years. 

Introduction.- The thin broken line. History, society, and the environment on the Yucatan Peninsula.- Globalization and children's diets: The case of Yucatan, Mexico.- Growth stunting and low height-for-age in the Yucatan Peninsula.- The urban Maya from Yucatan; dealing with the biological burden of the past and a degenerative present.- A critical biocultural perspective on tourism and the nutrition transition in the Yucatan.- Effect of salaried work in cities and commercial agriculture on natural fertility in rural Maya women from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.- Association between early developmental stress, as evidenced by linear enamel hypoplasias (LEHs), and body composition during adolescence in agricultural populations with different access to store foods and gendered activity patterns.- Hydration, lactation, and child health outcomes in Yucatec Maya.- Patterns of activity and somatic symptoms among urban and rural women at midlife in the state of Campeche, Mexico.- Environmental and cultural stressors in the coastal northern Maya lowlands in pre-Hispanic times.- History of health and life of pre-hispanic Maya through their skeletal remains.- Crossing the threshold of modern life. Comparing disease patterns between two documented urban cemetery series from the city of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.- Health and wellbeing in the Yucatan Peninsula revisited with a human ecology perspective.- Hair mercury content in an adult population of Merida, Yucatan Mexico as a function of anthropometric measures and seafood consumption.- Tackling exposure to Chagas Disease in the Yucatan from a human ecology perspective.- Conclusions.