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The “A to Z” of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2018
Type 2 diabetes affects racial/ethnic minorities at an alarming rate in the US and in many countries around the world. The quality of health care provided to these groups is often suboptimal, resulting in worse patient-related outcomes when compared to ...
A. Enrique Caballero
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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

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +13 more
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The measles outbreak in Israel in 2018-19: lessons for COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesHuman 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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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]

open access: yesHistória, 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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A school without railings: rural backgrounds, social medicine, and the circulation of public health material in Colombia, 1930-1946

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2021
Ambitious state hygiene education projects designed during liberal governments in Colombia (1930-1946) faced not just the poverty of rural populations, but also the reluctance of local political forces.
Natalia Botero-Tovar
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Somatização em migrantes de baixa renda no Brasil Somatization in Brazil's low-income migrants

open access: yesPsicologia & Sociedade, 2006
Este artigo tem por objetivo compreender o entrelaçamento da cultura com reações psicológicas de indivíduos expostos ao processo de migração e estabelecer relações entre o fenômeno da migração e adoecimento psicossomático.
Miguel Antônio de Mello Silva   +1 more
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At the edge of individual cognitive-behavioural policies: how to walk the public health path to effectively improve population health?

open access: yesSalud Pública de México, 2013
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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Realizing the World Health Organization’s End TB Strategy (2016–2035): How Can Social Approaches to Tuberculosis Elimination Contribute to Progress in Asia and the Pacific?

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019
This review article discusses how social approaches to tuberculosis elimination might contribute to realizing the targets stipulated in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) End TB Strategy (2016⁻2035), with an emphasis on opportunities for ...
Christopher A. John
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Lessons from Mexico’s H1N1 Influenza Outbreak

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2009
1. Mexico needs to rebuild an efficient epidemiological monitoring system which can react in a timely manner to unusual infectious outbreaks. SINAVE, the National Epidemiologic Monitoring System, showed itself incapable of responding opportunely and ...
Latin American Social Medicine Association
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