Volume 3, No. 3 of Social Medicine / Medicina Social published
We have just published the 10th edition of Social Medicine/Medicina Social, our bilingual, online journal. It is available in both English and Spanish.
Editorial
Social Medicine/Medicina Social’s 10th Issue, The Editors: Our brief reflections on the progress and problems of publishing an online journal. With many thanks to those of have helped us.
Original Research
Maquila Workers’ Health: Basic Issues, What is Known, and a Pilot Study in Nicaragua Lylliam Perpetuo López, Luis Blanco R., Aurora Aragón B., Timo Partanen: Trying to assess the health impact of the maquila industry and how best to study it.
Themes and Debates
Health Equity: Conceptual Models, Essential Aspects and the Perspective of Collective Health Nivaldo Linares-Péreza, Oliva López-Arellano: An attempt to review the state of the literature using the critical lens of collective health.
Social Medicine in Practice
Experiences in Popular Education in Sandinista Nicaragaua, Maria Felisa Lemus: Midwives, vaccination campaigns, the contra war, and Ben Linder riding a unicycle in Sandinista Nicaragua
News & Events
International Seminar of Public Health Policy Asuncion, Paraguay International Seminar of Public Health: A Paraguayan perspective on the right to health.
A Social Medicine Perspective on Gender-based Health Inequities: Defending the right to sexual and reproductive choice in Chile, Mario Parada Lezcano, Paula Santana Nazarit: The Chilean social medicine community reacts to a recent Constitutional Court decision prohibiting the provision of emergency contraception by public institutions.
Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES) XI Congress, November 17-21, 2009, Bogota, Colombia Mauricio Torres Tovar: This conference will mark the 25th Anniversary of ALAMES. What role does health play in the larger social and political agenda? How can the social medicine community join forces with others to promote the right to health?
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