[EQ] Special Edition Of Social Medicine: Health Reform in Venezuela

 

Social Medicine/ Medicina Social [An international, open-access, peer-reviewed academic forum published online in English and Spanish.]

 

Currently available in English at  www.socialmedicine.info and in Spanish at www.medicinasocial.info . 

 

The theme for this special edition is:

Health for All: Alma Ata is Alive and Well in Venezuela

Vol 3, No 4 (2008)
Guest Editors: Joan E. Paluzzi & Fernando Arribas García

This issue includes an international group of physicians, public health specialists and other scholars, many of them directly involved in the design, implementation, and assessment of Venezuela’s new national health care system and the development of its concurrent educational infrastructure.
The articles on Venezuela include:

 

Table of Contents

Editorials

Health for All: Alma Ata is Alive and Well in Venezuela		PDF
Joan Elizabeth Paluzzi, Fernando Arribas García,
Venezuelan Health Reforms National Training Program for Comprehensive Community Physicians, Venezuela				Abstract PDF
Eugenio Radamés Borroto Cruz, Ramón Syr Salas Perea

 

Neoliberal Policies and their Impact on Public Health Education: Observations on the Venezuelan Experience	Abstract PDF
Oscar Feo

 

Venezuela's Barrio Adentro: participatory democracy, south-south cooperation and health care for all	Abstract PDF
Carles Muntaner, Francisco Armada, Haejoo Chung, Mata Rosicar, Leslie Williams-Brennan, Joan Benach

 

Venezuela’s Misión Barrio Adentro “Inside the Neighborhood”	Slideshow
Joan Elizabeth Paluzzi

 

Adentro Barrio Adentro: An American Medical Student in Venezuela	Abstract PDF
Rebecca Trotzky Sirr

Themes and Debates

Social Determinants of Health: Perspective of the ALAMES Social Determinants Working Group	Abstract PDF
Oliva López Arellano, José Carlos Escudero, Luz Dary Camona

 

From: Joan Paluzzi JEPALUZZ Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Anthropology University of North Carolina joan_paluzzi@uncg.edu

Editorial Offices: Department of Family and Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, New York

 

 

 

 

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