Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War-The Role of Health Professionals
Social Medicine, 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.
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Upgrading a Social Media Strategy to Increase Twitter Engagement During the Spring Annual Meeting of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. [PDF]
, 2017 Microblogs known as tweets are a rapid, effective method of information dissemination in health care. Although several medical specialties have described their Twitter conference experiences, Twitter-related data in the fields of anesthesiology and ...
Gupta, Rajnish K. +6 more
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The “A to Z” of Managing Type 2 Diabetes in Culturally Diverse Populations
Frontiers 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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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 +13 more
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Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India [PDF]
, 2010 Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology.
Fuller, C. J., Narasimhan, Haripriya
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Medicina social latinoamericana: aportes y desafíos [PDF]
, 2002 This piece presents and analyzes a number of issues related to social medicine: the context of the emergence of social medicine; the differences between social medicine and public health; the theories, methods, and debates in social medicine; the main ...
Breilh, Jaime +4 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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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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História, 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
Psicologia & 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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