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Un llamado a la acción: carta abierta de los profesionales de la salud global: Firmada por alrededor de 3000 profesionales globales de la salud [PDF]

, 2023
The world is alight with horror, grief, and rage. In the last 34 days, we witnessed the mass killing of civilians and numerous violations of international law.
Medicine , Social
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El papel de los profesionales de la salud en la reducción del riesgo de guerra nuclear [PDF]

, 2023
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.1 In August 2022, the UN Secretary-General ...
Social Medicine - Medicina Social, Editors
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Implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in rural and urban Ghana: a history and systematic review of what works, for whom and why

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundDespite renewed emphasis on strengthening primary health care globally, the sector remains under-resourced across sub–Saharan Africa. Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) has been the foundation of Ghana's primary care system for
Helen Elsey, Mary Abboah-Offei, Aishwarya Lakshmi Vidyasagaran, Dominic Anaseba, Lauren Wallace, Adanna Nwameme, Akosua Gyasi, Andrews Ayim, Adelaide Ansah-Ofei, Nina Amedzro, Delanyo Dovlo, Erasmus Agongo, Koku Awoonor-Williams, Irene Agyepong   +13 more
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The Benefits and Costs of Social Distancing in Rich and Poor Countries [PDF]

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Vol. 115 No. 7 (2021): 807-819, 2020
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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MORMED: towards a multilingual social networking platform facilitating medicine 2.0 [PDF]

, 2010
The broad adoption of Web 2.0 tools has signalled a new era of "Medicine 2.0" in the field of medical informatics. The support for collaboration within online communities and the sharing of information in social networks offers the opportunity for new ...
Bibikas, Dimitris, Boes, Ulrich, Kargioti, Eleni, Kourtesis, Dimitrios, Paraskakis, Iraklis   +4 more
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The measles outbreak in Israel in 2018-19: lessons for COVID-19 pandemic

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
During 2018–2019 Israel saw some 4300 measles cases in a country-wide epidemic. Increased measles incidence rates and considerable disease burden have been observed in under-vaccinated communities, predominantly Jewish ultraorthodox. The measles epidemic,
Chen Stein-Zamir, Hagai Levine
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Update on the Coordinated Efforts of Looking After the Health Care Needs of Children and Young People Fleeing the Conflict Zone of Ukraine Presenting to European Emergency Departments—A Joint Statement of the European Society for Emergency Paediatrics and the European Academy of Paediatrics

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
This joint statement by the European Society for Emergency Paediatrics and European Academy of Paediatrics aims to highlight recommendations for dealing with refugee children and young people fleeing the Ukrainian war when presenting to emergency ...
Ruud G. Nijman, Ruud G. Nijman, Ruud G. Nijman, Silvia Bressan, Julia Brandenberger, Julia Brandenberger, Julia Brandenberger, Davi Kaur, Kristina Keitel, Kristina Keitel, Ian K. Maconochie, Ian K. Maconochie, Rianne Oostenbrink, Niccolo Parri, Itai Shavit, Ozlem Teksam, Roberto Velasco, Patrick van de Voorde, Liviana Da Dalt, Ann De Guchtenaere, Adamos A. Hadjipanayis, Robert Ross Russell, Stefano del Torso, Zsolt Bognar, Luigi Titomanlio, Luigi Titomanlio   +25 more
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A debate over the link between Salvador Allende, Max Westenhöfer, and Rudolf Virchow: contributions to the history of social medicine in Chile and internationally [PDF]

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2020
In the history of Latin American social medicine, numerous works have presented a harmonious link between Rudolf Virchow, Max Westenhöfer, and Salvador Allende, which establishes the origin of ideas of Latin American social medicine in a prestigious ...
Eric D. Carter, Marcelo Sánchez Delgado
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Citing and referencing habits in Medicine and Social Sciences journals in 2019 [PDF]

, 2020
This article explores citing and referencing systems in Social Sciences and Medicine articles from different theoretical and practical perspectives, considering bibliographic references as a facet of descriptive representation. The analysis of citing and referencing elements (i.e.
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The social dilemma in artificial intelligence development and why we have to solve it [PDF]

, 2021
While the demand for ethical artificial intelligence (AI) systems increases, the number of unethical uses of AI accelerates, even though there is no shortage of ethical guidelines. We argue that a possible underlying cause for this is that AI developers face a social dilemma in AI development ethics, preventing the widespread adaptation of ethical best
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