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ObjectiveTo evaluate the relationship between socioeconomic status and the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).Research design and methodsFrom the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database, we identified 2,429,
Minju Han+14 more
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Learner Milestones to Guide Decolonial Global Health Education
The current movement to ‘decolonize’ global health aims to both dismantle colonial frameworks that perpetuate inequity and racism, as well as to rebuild and uplift structures and systems that celebrate indigeneity.
Leah Ratner+6 more
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O LAPSO: ECHOES OF CHARLES LAMB IN THE SCIENCE OF PAYING [PDF]
This article analyses the short story ‘O Lapso’ (1883). It demonstrates how Machado de Assis connects social medicine and the capitalist system via a quote by the early Romantic writer Charles Lamb.
VIVIANE CARVALHO DA ANNUNCIAÇÃO
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Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War-The Role of Health Professionals
In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.
Editors Social Medicine-Medicina Social
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Most countries worldwide have recognised the significance of contextual social determinants of health (SDH) on population health. This essay challenges current public health views focused on individual risk-factors and motivates an evidenceinformed ...
Baltica Cabieses
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Rethinking global health from south and north: A social medicine approach to global health education
This study examines efforts to integrate social medicine into global health education and its potential to guide the new practice of structural competency.
Elyse Katz+4 more
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Re-imagining global health through social medicine
The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend ‘the social’ in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of ...
Vincanne Adams+4 more
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The Benefits and Costs of Social Distancing in Rich and Poor Countries [PDF]
Social distancing is the primary policy prescription for combating the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been widely adopted in Europe and North America. We estimate the value of disease avoidance using an epidemiological model that projects the spread of COVID-19 across rich and poor countries.
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Social Medicine: Twitter in Healthcare
Social media enables the public sharing of information. With the recent emphasis on transparency and the open sharing of information between doctors and patients, the intersection of social media and healthcare is of particular interest.
Yash Pershad+3 more
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Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945
This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International ...
Eric D. Carter
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