[EQ] Social Medicine [English and Spanish]

Social Medicine - Vol 4, No 2 (2009)

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English - Table of Contents at: http://journals.sfu.ca/socialmedicine/index.php/socialmedicine/issue/view/38/showToc

 

Español - Table de contenidos: http://journals.sfu.ca/socialmedicine/index.php/medicinasocial/issue/view/35/showToc

 

Editorials

The Economic Crisis and Public Health

Barry S Levy, Victor Sidel 

“…..The current global economic crisis seriously threatens the health of the public. Challenges include increases in malnutrition; homelessness and inadequate housing; unemployment; substance abuse, depression, and other mental health problems; mortality; child health problems; violence; environmental and occupational health problems; and social injustice and violation of human rights; as well as decreased availability, accessibility, and affordability of quality medical and dental care. Health professionals can respond by promoting surveillance and documentation of human needs, reassessing public health priorities, educating the public and policymakers about health problems worsened by the economic crisis, advocating for sound policies and programs to address these problems, and directly providing necessary programs and services…”

 

Lessons from Mexico’s H1N1 Influenza Outbreak

Latin American Social Medicine Association, Mexico Region, A.C. 

 

Original Research

 

‘Top Heavy’ Systems and Quality of Health Care

Zakir Husain, Saswata Ghosh, Bijoya Roy 

 

Poverty and Health in Argentina

Maria Alejandra Silva 

 

Themes and Debates

An Interview with Sir Michael Marmot

Editors 

 

Latin American Social Medicine and the Report of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Rafael Gonzalez Guzman 

 

Participation and empowerment in Primary Health Care: from Alma Ata to the era of globalization

Pol De Vos, Geraldine Malaise, Wim De Ceukelaire, Denis Perez, Pierre Lefèvre, Patrick Van der Stuyft 

 

News & Events

Health & Life: A tribute to the late Edmundo Granda Ugalde

Zaida Betancourt 

¡Salud! Southwest Tour

Joanna Mae Mae Souers 

XI Congress of Latin American Social Medicine & Collective Health

Mauricio Torres Tovar 

 

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