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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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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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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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Infections and Inequalities ReVista

WEBKris Heggenhougen is an Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development, where he is initiating a research and intervention program on health and …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poverty in Brazil in Times of Pandemic ReVista

WEBOn a black-and-white, old television, the anchor of Reporter Esso, Hilton Gomes, read the news from a country that was not the real Brazil. “Brazil, Love It or …

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Barrio Adentro: A Look at the Origins of a Social Mission

WEBBarrio Adentro, a social program that has expanded throughout Venezuela providing health care to city slums and rural communities, started in the Caracas …

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Beyond Identity: Redistributive Transgender Rights in Argentina

WEBOver the past decade, trans and travesti communities in Argentina have been calling for economic reparations for our seniors ( travesti is a feminine gender …

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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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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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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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Cuban Working Women during the Pandemic ReVista

WEBSeven out of ten Cuban workers are employed the public sector. The majority stayed at their jobs during the pandemic. Women are two-thirds of all …

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