Readers:
Social Medicine has just published its latest issue at
http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine.
We are happy that information about the health care struggles in Colombia (our lead editorial) and Argentina (where Dr. Hirtz and her colleagues describe how workers took over their clinic rather than see it close) is available to an English-speaking audience. Claire Robinson and Martin Donohue describe the public health damage caused by GE Healthcare, an entity that also shows up in Indira Chakravarthi´s detailed look at corporate penetration into Indian health care. Dr. Tim Anderson offers a fascinating look at the Cuban-inspired development of social medicine in Timor Leste and ponders how it will develop in the future. Drs. Laura Moya and Jorge Alvar have completed a systemic review of the role of stigma in cutaneous neglected tropical diseases and ask if previous health campaigns have not failed because of a neglect of this important aspect of disfiguring diseases. Finally, he noted historian Socrates Litsios provides a glimpse into the Rockefeller Foundation's conflicted approach to promoting public health in US medical schools.
We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.
Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Matthew Anderson
Department of Family and Social Medicine, MMC/AECOM, Bronx New York, USA
Phone 917 817-1986
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Social Medicine
Vol 5, No 4 (2010)
Table of Contents
http://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/issue/view/50
Editorials
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Colombia’s New Health Reform: Keeping the Financial Sector Healthy (177-181)
Mario Hernández Álvarez, Mauricio Torres-Tovar
Original Research
Social Medicine in Timor Leste (182-191)
Tim Anderson
Corporate presence in healthcare sector in India (192-204)
Indira Chakravarthi
On the “hitherto untried process of giving doctors adequate training” in preventive medicine and public health (205-217)
Socrates Litsios
Stigmatizing neglected tropical diseases: a systematic review (218-227)
Laura Moya Alonso, Jorge Alvar Medical Officer
Social Medicine in Practice
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Working Conditions and Health Care in a “recuperated” clinic in Cordoba, Argentina (228-236)
Natalia V. Hirtz, Marta S. Giacone, Carlos Álvarez., Eduardo Maturano
GE Healthcare - "Most Admired Company" or Foe of Public Health (237-244)
Claire Robinson
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Matthew Anderson
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