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Chile’s New Constitution, the Right to Health, and Health System

WEBBy Marco Antonio Nuñez. During these months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, the need to align the constitutional process with long-postponed structural …

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Public Health Considerations for a Rapidly Changing World: An …

WEBBy Ashley Collins—São Paulo Marcia Castro is a professor of demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public …

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The Health of Indigenous Populations in Mexico: Disencounters

WEBIn Mexico, half of the indigenous population resides in rural localities with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants; 78.7% live in poverty, and 39.4% live in extreme poverty, …

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Violence is a Public Health Issue ReVista

WEBRodrigo Guerrero, a physician, is the founder and director of DESEPAZ in Cali, Colombia. He was mayor of the city from 1993-1996. Guerrero, former regional …

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A Review of Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical …

WEBI should say at the outset that I was involved in the “neoliberal” reform described by César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero in his book Health in Ruins: The Capitalist …

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Costa Rica's health care response to the pandemic

WEBSpeaker: Roman Macaya, PhD, Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow, HSPH Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography; Chair of …

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Health Inequalities in Brazil ReVista

WEBPamela Surkan is a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, where she received a doctorate in 2005.Her thesis work in Brazil was partially supported by two …

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Health in the Americas ReVista

WEBDr. George A. O. Alleyne, MD, is the Director of the Pan-American Health Organization, the oldest international public health agency and the Regional Office for the Americas for …

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Fighting Displacement: The Popular Garifuna Hospital in Honduras

WEBSuyapa Portillo is an Assistant Professor of Chicano/a and Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. Priscilla Cobian is a Pitzer College alumna, who majored in Sociology …

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HSPH Collaborative Field Course in Brazil

WEBThis field course is offered in collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, in Manaus, Brazil. The course …

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Health and Wealth ReVista

WEBThe regression results predict that life expectancy is seven years lower in the wet tropics than in desert and dry regions with the same income and female literacy. …

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The COVID-19 Response in Mexico ReVista

WEBMexico has tried to control Covid-19 through social distancing coupled with a national lockdown, scaled-up healthcare systems, and a public health campaign to …

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Brazilian Public Health Systems ReVista

WEBReducing sickness, controlling endemic disease and parasites, improving health monitoring and the quality of life of Brazilians, are goals that have guided the actions of the …

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Telemedicine, Covid 19 and Health System Challenges in Colombia

WEBBetween March 2020 and June 2021, more than 2.6 million people insured by SURA Colombia used TM for health care, of which 62% were women, 2.1% were …

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Health Reform Process in Chile ReVista

WEBChile was one of the first countries on the continent to significantly reform its health system in the 1980s. It introduced new programs of public and private social …

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Remaking the Welfare State

WEBThe pandemic has revealed the strong capacity of Chile’s state and extensive public health system. The country has a relatively high rate of testing and a remarkable …

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Cuba: Through A Public Health Lens ReVista

WEBThe Cuban health system is free to all. It is centrally driven but decentralized in its implementation, with rigorous monitoring at all levels. There is a strict adherence to the …

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A Review of When Misfortune Becomes Injustice ReVista

WEBIt’s in that context that Alicia Yamin’s volume on health and human rights, When Misfortune Becomes Injustice , comes to us as a pragmatic call to action and an …

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Compañeros En Salud ReVista

WEBMercedes Aguerrebere, M.D., previously served as Mental Health Coordinator for Partners In Health Mexico (Compañeros En Salud), where she built a …

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