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About this Research Topic Submission closed. Guidelines Recently, our society has experimented that Virology is a changing panorama with a large impact on health, economy, and society. In the post-pandemic times, preparedness for existing and new threats has become a key factor focusing the work of clinical virologists and researchers. This Research Topic is focused on the knowledge and recent experience in viral diseases in the Iberian Peninsula geographical area, neighboring countries - due to climate change - and worldwide - given the ease of communications and the globalization of our societies. For research focussed on plant virology, please see the twinned Research Topic in Frontiers in Microbiology.
Risk factors for chronic diseases differ between men and women. Exploring and tracking the direction and magnitude of trends in exposure to risk factors and accessing services will provide valuable insights into the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. As sex-disaggregated data can hide important differences between men and women, it is important to analyze the non-communicable disease data gender-wise. Research in these areas will also help to understand the role of gender and help in the planning of gender-responsive health promotion or preventive campaigns and gender-responsive interventions. There is a need to address the impact of gender norms, roles, and the social dete...
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors of Venezuela Before Chávez, who each played a policymaking role in the country’s economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to examine syst...