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	<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org</link>
	<description>An Alternative to Corporate Health</description>
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		<title>Studying Medicine in Cuba: The Experience of two US Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a posting dated March 23, 2008, we wrote about the Cuban government&#8217;s offer of medical scholarships to US students: How US students can get a free medical education in Cuba.  We have just published an article by two American students studying in Cuba: Razel Remen and Lillian Holloway. They discuss their experiences at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/21/for-students/studying-medicine-in-cuba-the-experience-of-two-us-students/</link>
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		<title>Social Medicine Vol 3 No 2: Progressive Health Reforms in Latin America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have just published Volume 3, Number 2 of Social Medicine. The full table of contents in available on line. Here is some information about the articles:
Earlier this year we invited Asa Cristina Laurell, a prominent Mexican public health activist to prepare a special issue on progressive health reforms in Latin America. Dr. Laurell was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/17/for-students/social-medicine-v3n2-progressive-health-reforms-in-latin-america/</link>
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		<title>Robert Greifinger (Social Pediatrics 1976): Public Health Behind Bars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does a social medicine doctor do?
Robert Greifinger, an RPSM graduate in Social Pediatrics in 1976, has been extensively involved in examining the prison system from a public health point of view.  Last year, he published Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, the title of which suggests his social conception of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/16/rpsm-alumni/robert-greifinger-social-pediatrics-1976-public-health-behind-bars/</link>
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		<title>Yeshiva University&#8217;s Institute for Public Health Sciences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday (7/8/2008) brought Dr. Jonathan Tobin from Yeshiva  University&#8217;s Institute for Public Health Sciences to Social Medicine Rounds. He came to lead a showing and discussion of the PBS documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Dr. Tobin is well-known in the public health community for his work as head of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/14/for-students/yeshiva-universitys-institute-for-public-health-sciences/</link>
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		<title>Homer Venters (RPSM IM 2007) on Immigration Detainee Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do Social Medicine doctors do?
Dr. Homer Venters, a 2007 RSPM Internal Medicine Graduate, is currently working as an Attending Physician at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and is a Public Health Fellow, New York University.  During his residency at Montefiore, Dr. Venters worked with Bronx Defenders, a legal aid organization in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/10/rpsm-alumni/homer-venters-rpsm-im-2007-on-immigration-detainee-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Fifty-nine percent of US physicians support National Health Insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of belonging to Physicians for a National Health Program is their excellent newsletter. It offers reprints of articles related to the advocacy of a single payer plan in the US.
Perhaps the most interesting reprint in the last PNHP report was the letter published April 1, 2008 (not a joke we hope) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/08/us-health-care/fifty-nine-percent-of-us-physicians-support-national-health-insurance/</link>
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		<title>Health Cooperatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity.  In the tradition of their founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/05/alternative-health-care/health-cooperatives/</link>
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		<title>Class and Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social Medicine had its birth during the Industrial Revolution in Europe as health statistics (a relatively new tool) made clear that disease and death were linked to poverty and exploitation.
One of the first empiric studies examining this question was done in the 1820&#8217;s by the French physician Louis Rene Villerme. Villerme looked at mortality statistics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/07/04/history-of-social-medicine/class-and-health/</link>
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		<title>Struggle for Health: Short Course for Health Activists: Brazil, September 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at the People&#8217;s Health Movement have just announced the next short course for health activists, being offered in Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 7-20, 2008.  This course will be offered in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
The curriculum is an interesting one, and can be viewed at the International People&#8217;s Health University (IPHU) website.  Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/06/30/globalization-and-health/struggle-for-health-short-course-for-health-activists-brazil-september-2008/</link>
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		<title>Opportunity to do Community Health Research in Cuba: December 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week we received the following announcement from MEDICC which we are reproducing with their permission.  Opportunities to visit Cuba and do research are very limited:
MEDICC is contacting community health professionals to announce an exciting opportunity for research on Cuba&#8217;s primary care health system, December 7 - 14, 2008.
MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialmedicine.org/2008/06/27/community-health/opportunity-to-do-community-health-research-in-cuba-december-2008/</link>
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