XI Congress of Latin American Social Medicine & Collective Health [PDF]
, 2009 The Latin American Medical Association (ALAMES) will be hosting the 11th Congress of Latin American Social Medicine and Collective Health from November 17-21 in Bogota Colombia.
Mauricio Torres Tovar +1 more
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Prevalence and factors associated with the use of alternative (folk) medicine practitioners in 8 countries of the former Soviet Union. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Research suggests that since the collapse of the Soviet Union there has been a sharp growth in the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in some former Soviet countries.
Stickley, Andrew, +13 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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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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Medicine sellers' perspectives on their role in providing health care in North-West Cameroon: a qualitative study. [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: Increasing recognition of the importance of medicine sellers in low-resource settings has emerged alongside assumptions that their motives and capacities primarily relate to profit maximization.
Mangham-Jefferies, LJ +3 more
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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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La preparación de un Programa de Estudios en Medicina Social: McKeown Reconsiderado [PDF]
, 2013 This article revisits Thomas McKeown’s classic 1957 article regarding the difficulties involved in teaching, and preparing a syllabus in, social medicine.
Goldberg, Daniel
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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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Trabajando por la Justicia Social en Montefiore y Einstein [PDF]
, 2013 Victor W. Sidel was the third head of Montefiore Medical Center’s Department of Social Medicine. Founded by Ephraim Bluestone and initially led by Martin Cherkasky and George Silver, the Department pioneered and implemented the vision of a “hospital ...
Paccione, Gerald A.
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Salud 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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