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A decade ago, a number of English-speaking authors focused mainly on the analysis and intervention of processes of social determination of health of migrants developed the concept of structural vulnerability as a way to combat individualism, biologism ...
Carlos Piñones Rivera+2 more
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A comparative study of community medicine and public health curriculum at medical schools in Iran and North America [PDF]
Background: Community medicine and public health are the core subjects in medical education. One of the main competencies of general physicians in the national curriculum is having knowledge and skills in health promotion and disease prevention in the ...
Tahereh Changiz, Mahasti Alizadeh
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Medicina social latinoamericana: aportes y desafíos [PDF]
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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Pregnancy in autistic women and social medical considerations: scoping review and meta- synthesis
IntroductionThis article addresses a topic that has been largely overlooked by scientific literature, namely pregnancy in autistic women. Generally, the issue of sexuality in disability, particularly in disabled women, autistic or otherwise, has been ...
Rosaria Ferrara+8 more
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Smoking related disease risk, area deprivation and health behaviours [PDF]
Acknowledgements We thank Professor Luke Vale, Dr Diane Stockton and participants at the Faculty of Public Health conference, Aviemore, Scotland, November 2011 and UK Society for Behavioural Medicine conference, Stirling, Scotland, December 2011 for ...
Craig, Peter+3 more
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As physicians work to achieve optimal health outcomes for their patients, they often struggle to address the issues that arise outside the clinic. Social, economic, and political factors influence patients' burden of disease, access to treatment, and ...
J. Kasper+3 more
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The Political Future of Social Medicine: Reflections on Physicians as Activists.
The academic discipline of social medicine has always had a political and policy advocacy component, in addition to its core functions of research and teaching. Its origins lie in the 18th and 19th centuries, in the work of Johann Peter Frank and Rudolph
H. Jack Geiger
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Is TikTok The Next Social Media Frontier for Medicine?
With 72% of the public participating in at least one social media platform, technology has become influential in allowing online communities to interact and share information surrounding similar problems, solutions, and insights.
Geoffrey B. Comp, S. Dyer, M. Gottlieb
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Several Latin American countries are implementing a suite of so-called "postneoliberal" social and political economic policies to counter neoliberal models that emerged in the 1980s.
Christopher D. Hartmann
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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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