We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in La Habana, Cuba: A Study of Local Social–Ecological Resilience.
- Authors
Morrison, Karen; Aguiar Prieto, Pablo; Castro Domínguez, Arnaldo; Waltner-Toews, David; FitzGibbon, John
- Abstract
Following the collapse of the Cuban economy in the early 1990s, epidemiologists in the Cuban Ministry of Health noticed dramatic increases in reported outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) in some coastal communities. This article summarizes the results of a comparative case study which applied an ecosystem approach to human health to investigate this issue. Situated learning and complexity theories were used to interpret the results of the investigation. CFP outbreaks are influenced by a complex set of interactions between ecological and socioeconomic processes. This study found that the level of organization of the local sports fishing community and the degree of degradation of the local nearshore marine ecosystem appear to be key factors influencing the diverging levels of CFP outbreaks recorded in the 1990s in the communities studied.
- Subjects
CUBA; TOXICOLOGY of poisonous fishes; POISONING in animals; CORAL reefs &; islands; ECOLOGY; HEALTH; SITUATED learning theory; MARINE ecosystem management; FISHING
- Publication
EcoHealth, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 3, p346
- ISSN
1612-9202
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10393-008-0188-7