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Monica Berger-González
Researcher at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Publications - 15
Citations - 174
Monica Berger-González is an academic researcher from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 12 publications receiving 80 citations. Previous affiliations of Monica Berger-González include University of Valle & ETH Zurich.
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Transdisciplinary Research on Cancer-Healing Systems Between Biomedicine and the Maya of Guatemala: A Tool for Reciprocal Reflexivity in a Multi-Epistemological Setting
TL;DR: A method of reciprocal reflexivity (Bidirectional Emic–Etic tool) developed to overcome biases induced by ethnocentric behaviors and power differentials is presented and may prove beneficial to others engaged in facilitating participatory health research in complex intercultural settings.
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Traditional Herbal Medicine in Mesoamerica: Toward Its Evidence Base for Improving Universal Health Coverage
Matthias S. Geck,Sol Cristians,Monica Berger-González,Laura Casu,Michael Heinrich,Marco Leonti +5 more
TL;DR: This approach presents a fundamental step toward UHC by presenting a pharmacological and toxicological review of the cross-culturally salient plant taxa and associated botanical drugs used in traditional medicine in Mesoamerica.
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Access and Benefit Sharing Under the Nagoya Protocol-Quo Vadis? Six Latin American Case Studies Assessing Opportunities and Risk.
Michael Heinrich,Francesca Scotti,Adolfo Andrade-Cetto,Monica Berger-González,Javier Echeverría,Fabio Friso,Felipe Garcia-Cardona,Alan Hesketh,Martin Hitziger,Caroline Maake,Matteo Politi,Carmenza Spadafora,Rita Spadafora +12 more
TL;DR: A long-term strategy is required to facilitate a better understanding of the treaties and the resulting opportunities for a fairer development and implementation of transparent national polices, which currently differ in the six countries.
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Estimation of free-roaming domestic dog population size: Investigation of three methods including an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based approach
Charlotte Warembourg,Monica Berger-González,Monica Berger-González,Danilo Alvarez,Filipe Maximiano Sousa,Alexis López Hernández,Pablo Roquel,Joe Eyerman,Merlin Benner,Salome Dürr +9 more
TL;DR: The quality of the UAV pictures was not sufficient to assess the presence of a mark on the spotted dogs, and no CR model could be implemented to estimate the size of the FRDD using UAV, which was found to be 78, 259, and 413 in the three study sites.
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If they could choose: How would dogs spend their days? Activity patterns in four populations of domestic dogs
Silja Griss,Stefanie Riemer,Charlotte Warembourg,Filipe Maximiano Sousa,Ewaldus Wera,Monica Berger-González,Monica Berger-González,Danilo Alvarez,Petrus Malo Bulu,Alexis López Hernández,Pablo Roquel,Salome Dürr +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data on the activity patterns of owned domestic dogs from Guatemala and Indonesia and of farm dogs (n = 11) and family dogs(n = 20) in Switzerland for 2.4-7 days and measured the BarkPoints (a continuous activity metric recorded by the FitBark tracker) for each hour in the 24-hour cycle.