title: Ergonomics in Latin America: background, trends and challenges.
abstract: This paper offers an introduction to ergonomics in Latin America through a brief overview of ergonomics practice in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It provides a short description of the history of ergonomics in each country, ergonomics teaching, its organisation through the ergonomics associations, and some highlights of the areas of interest, and examples of ergonomics practice.
authors.affiliation: ABERGO-Brazilian Association of Ergonomics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Department of Design, Centro de Artes e Comunicação, Cidade Universitária, 50.670-420 Recife, PE, Brazil. marcelo2@nlink.com.br
authors.forename: Marcelo M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Soares
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D006804:Ergonomics / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D008328:Man-Machine Systems