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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 the …

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When Healthcare is Part of the Village ReVista

WEBPhoto by Zo’é Team. The care given to the Zo’é people is guided by three fundamental premises. The first is respect for the culture and the social specificities, taking into …

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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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Health: the Hope of Haiti ReVista

WEBServing beside these incredible human beings also teaches to blend good medicine and social justice to fight economic and political structures which create their poverty- the …

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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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Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

WEBby James Hanken | May 17, 2009. Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity Edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein Oxford University Press, 2008, …

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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 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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Indigenous Health and Migration in Guatemala ReVista

WEBThree weeks into filming a documentary in Guatemala about migration, and I am tired. But I wanted—if it were clear enough—to film the sunrise so I stayed overnight …

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Guatemala: A Snapshot of Coronavirus and Communities in Need

WEBWhat started as an idea to let the children have a voice and document their own environment ended up as a vocation for me—a project originally called Out of the …

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Physicians for Human Rights ReVista

WEBWhen Jonathan Fine, a long time medical activist, invited Jane Schaller, Bob Lawrence, Jack Geiger, John Constable and me to join him in founding Physicians for Human …

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 model for …

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Brazil: Plastic Surgery, Covid-19 and Self-Esteem ReVista

WEBBrazil had almost 1.5 million surgeries and one million non- surgical procedures, the highest in the world. Liposuction (15.5%), breast augmentation (14.1%), …

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