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This article presents an analysis of the proportion of the population that lives in the 20 top cities of Mexico. Population that suffers from moderate to severe Depressive Symptoms (DS) in relation to urban and socioeconomic factors typical of urban territories and comparing them with people living in rural or non-urban environments that suffers DS. To check this, we generated the Complex Index of Socioeconomic and Urban Conditions (CISUC), based on the Mind the GAPS framework, a model that relates the susceptibility or prevention of mental illness in cities based on urban factors, we also used socioeconomic indicators that exist in Mexican cities. For the construction of the ICCSU database, we used data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey in the years 2006, 2012 and 2018-19 and the data of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, A.C. and National Institute of Statistics and Geography in the same years. The results obtained from CISUC were reinforced with the use of a panel data model. The findings that we obtained reveal that there is a more important correlation between cities and people who suffer from moderate to severe DS than in rural areas, a condition that intensifies with the socioeconomic conditions of the population, for example, their socioeconomic stratum, their gender, and present urban marginalization. This allows to generate future discussions about other types of diseases such as anxiety, depression, stress, loneliness, and schizophrenia for large population groups. The panel model yields a lower goodness of adjustment, due to the lack of more time points, however, it points out that improvements in socioeconomic and urban conditions slightly reduce depressive symptoms.

mental health depressive symptoms (DS) urban marginalization socioeconomic factors cities salud mental sintomatología depresiva (SD) ciudades marginación urbana factores socioeconómicos CIENCIAS SOCIALESCIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Editorial: Social and institutional innovations for achieving sustainable agricultural transformation in the global south

Paswel Marenya Jeetendra Aryal Annet Mulema Dil Bahadur Rahut (2023, [Artículo])

Agrifood Systems Transformation Global South Institutional Innovations CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS GREEN REVOLUTION INNOVATION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Influence of poverty concerns on demand for healthier processed foods: A field experiment in Mexico City

Marrit Van den Berg Jason Donovan (2023, [Artículo])

Living in poverty can present cognitive biases that exacerbate constraints to achieving healthier diets. Better diets could imply food choice upgrades within certain food categories, such as electing processed foods with an improved nutritional profile. This study evaluated the influence of monetary and health concerns on the willingness to pay (WTP) for healthier processed foods in a low-income section of Mexico City. We employed priming techniques from the scarcity literature, which are applied for the first time to healthier food purchasing behaviours in low-income settings. Our predictions are based on a dual system framework, with choices resulting from the interaction of deliberative and affective aspects. The WTP was elicited through a BDM mechanism with 423 participants. Results showed that induced poverty concerns reduced the valuations of one of the study's healthier food varieties by 0.17 standard deviations. The latter effect did not differ by income level. The WTP for a healthier bread product but one with relatively high sugar and fat content was reduced by induced poverty concerns only among certain consumers without bread purchasing restrictions (78% of the sample). Potential mechanisms were assessed through regression analysis and structural equation modelling. The relationship between poverty concerns and WTP was mediated by increased levels of stress. While we could not rule out impact on cognitive load, it was not deemed a mediator in this study. Our findings signal that improvements in economic and psychological well-being among low-income consumers may aid to increase their demand for healthier processed foods.

Healthier Diets Poverty Psychology Dual System Model CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA DIET POVERTY PSYCHOLOGY STRESS WILLINGNESS TO PAY

Sistema de consulta de proyecciones regionalizadas de cambio climático para México

Martin Jose Montero-Martinez WALDO OJEDA BUSTAMANTE Julio Sergio Santana RICARDO PRIETO GONZALEZ René Lobato-Sánchez (2013, [Artículo])

Los modelos de circulación general acoplados permiten proyectar el clima futuro, pero no hay un modelo único, por lo que se recurre a ensambles de varios modelos. En este trabajo se utilizó un método estadístico para obtener un ensamble usando 23 modelos de circulación general mediante el algoritmo de fiabilidad de ensamble ponderado que considera dos criterios de fiabilidad: el desempeño del modelo para reproducir el clima actual y la convergencia de los cambios proyectados entre los modelos seleccionados. Se regionalizaron los datos de precipitación, y temperaturas máxima y mínima de superficie, con los escenarios SRES-A1B y SRES-A2 para el siglo XXI, y se incrementó su resolución espacial a una malla regular de 0.5 X 0.5° sobre México. Para facilitar el manejo de estos resultados se desarrolló un sistema, Sedepecc, que contiene las proyecciones generadas en una base de datos y las presenta a través de una interfaz amigable. El análisis de las anomalías proyectadas para el presente siglo en México indica un incremento general en temperatura y un decremento en precipitación. Los resultados indican que el cambio de la temperatura será mayor para el verano que para el invierno, acentuándose para las últimas tres décadas del presente siglo, donde los valores se proyectan por arriba de los 5°C para algunas regiones del centro del país. Como caso de aplicación del sistema, se generaron las proyecciones de cambio climático para el distrito de riego 075, localizado en el norte de Sinaloa, México.

Calentamiento global Distritos de riego Sistemas de información CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA