El papel de los profesionales de la salud en la reducción del riesgo de guerra nuclear

In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, reflecting the growing risk of nuclear war.1 In August 2022, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is now in “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War.”2 The danger has been underlined by growing tensions between many nuclear armed states.1,3 As editors of health and medical journals worldwide, we call on health professionals to alert the public and our leaders to this major danger to public health and the essential life support systems of the planet—and urge action to prevent it.En enero 2023, el Consejo de Ciencia y Seguridad del Boletín de los Científicos Atómicos, adelantó las manecillas del reloj del juicio final a 90 segundos antes de medianoche, reflejando el creciente riesgo de una guerra nuclear.1 En agosto de 2022, el Secretario General de la ONU, António Guterres, advirtió que el mundo se encuentra en “una época de peligro nuclear no vista desde el apogeo de la Guerra Fría”.2 El peligro se ha visto acentuado por las crecientes tensiones entre Estados con armamento nuclear.1,3 Como editores de revistas médicas y de salud de todo el mundo, hacemos un llamamiento a los profesionales del cuidado a la salud para que alerten a la población y a nuestros dirigentes sobre este grave peligro para la salud pública y los sistemas esenciales para el sostén vital del planeta, e instamos en que se tomen medidas para evitarlo

Misdiagnosis, Mistreatment, and Harm - When Medical Care Ignores Social Forces.

The Case Studies in Social Medicine demonstrate that when physicians use only biologic or individual behavioral interventions to treat diseases that stem from or are exacerbated by social factors, we risk harming the patients we seek to serve

Social medicine and international expert networks in Latin America, 1930–1945

This paper examines the international networks that influenced ideas and policy in social medicine in the 1930s and 1940s in Latin America, focusing on institutional networks organised by the League of Nations Health Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau. After examining the architecture of these networks, this paper traces their influence on social and health policy in two policy domains: social security and nutrition. Closer scrutiny of a series of international conferences and local media accounts of them reveals that international networks were not just ‘conveyor belts’ for policy ideas from the industrialised countries of the US and Europe into Latin America; rather, there was often contentious debate over the relevance and appropriateness of health and social policy models in the Latin American context. Recognition of difference between Latin America and the global economic core regions was a key impetus for seeking ‘national solutions to national problems’ in countries like Argentina and Chile, even as integration into these networks provided progressive doctors, scientists, and other intellectuals important international support for local political reforms

Medicina social latinoamericana: aportes y desafíos

This piece presents and analyzes a number of issues related to social medicine: the context of the emergence of social medicine; the differences between social medicine and public health; the theories, methods, and debates in social medicine; the main subjects or problems considered in social medicine; and the difficulties of disseminating the concepts of social medicine among English-speaking persons and among medical and public health professionals in general. Latin American social medicine has challenged other views by contributing to an understanding of the determinants of the health-disease-health care process and by using theories, methods, and techniques that are little known in the field of public health. Introducing Latin American social medicine, especially among English speakers, will be difficult due to the conceptual complexity of this field for persons who are accustomed to the theoretical framework of public health and medicine and also due to skepticism concerning research coming from the Third World. A multidisciplinary team is facing this challenge through two primary initiatives: 1) the creation of an Internet portal and database where there are structured abstracts in English, Portuguese, and Spanish of books, book chapters, and articles on social medicine and 2) the electronic publication of two journals on Latin American social medicine

The Population Problem: A Third World Reaction

Dr. Mascarenhas is Consultant in Community Health and Family Planning at the Family Welfare Center in Bangalore, India. Until April, 1975, she was Head of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at St. John\u27s Medical College in Bangalore and was actively involved in the first Village Health Cooperative program sponsored by the College. She is the author of a recently published book entitled Population Education for Quality of Life. The following article is the text of a paper presented at the XI General Assembly of the International Federation of Catholic Universities

R/evolution: Social medicine in ink.

R/Evolution: Social Medicine in Ink, positions composition of written words in print vis-a-vis dominance of wider social communications via multi-sensory communications media. Given no mass medium is more of an antibiotic perceptually for this contemporaneous incubation than specialized visual fragmentation of the Latin alphabet typographically set on pages, marginalized ABCs machines press in ink provide modified relevance in supplying new circuit breaker demands for an electronic jungle we swamp ourselves with. Writers who disembody their expressions by descendants of Gutenberg\u27s technology thusly fully capitalize by writing in the mask of the artist-critic, to service to all atypically fit for facing an implosion underway of readers and of reading since channeling this fusion ecology is done eclectically, poetry with prose, fiction with non-fiction, as well as drama. This thesis models these efforts on revision of the trivium, lower division of the seven liberal arts of the Middle Ages, in attempting pattern recognition enchancement an anti-environment should foster, an information compass to users who become explorers of the globe online. Ergo to provide control and comprehension is to refashion Archimedes\u27 lever in the image of this new literacy: ability to adjust to perpetually shifting reality awash in the symbology of virtual dataspheres. The hypothesis in question is if there is beneficial generalization cognitively as much as physically an unspecialized hand enabled our ancestors on our revolutionary evolutionary path to adapt to and through tools that extend an increasingly obsolescent body that nature once predominantly nurtured--minds as hands, as antennae tuned for coded fields of feeds, evagination of tentacle of consciousness handling digital depths through grasping.Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2005 .M67. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, page: 1152. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2005

The Latin American Social Medicine database

BACKGROUND: Public health practitioners and researchers for many years have been attempting to understand more clearly the links between social conditions and the health of populations. Until recently, most public health professionals in English-speaking countries were unaware that their colleagues in Latin America had developed an entire field of inquiry and practice devoted to making these links more clearly understood. The Latin American Social Medicine (LASM) database finally bridges this previous gap. DESCRIPTION: This public health informatics case study describes the key features of a unique information resource intended to improve access to LASM literature and to augment understanding about the social determinants of health. This case study includes both quantitative and qualitative evaluation data. Currently the LASM database at The University of New Mexico brings important information, originally known mostly within professional networks located in Latin American countries to public health professionals worldwide via the Internet. The LASM database uses Spanish, Portuguese, and English language trilingual, structured abstracts to summarize classic and contemporary works. CONCLUSION: This database provides helpful information for public health professionals on the social determinants of health and expands access to LASM

Balanced scorecard implementation in public social medicine

Social medicine is a segment of public health services aiming to improve the population’s health through various preventive programmes and activities. This is why the metrics of performance measurement can be a challenge, because these are activities with a qualitative outcome that requires a time lag. The research subject is the assessment of effectiveness of social medicine programmes implemented in the public health system of the Republic of Croatia. For this empirical research, data were used by the county’s Teaching Institute of Public Health, Social Medicine Department. The department has three basic objectives: to assess the health and health needs of the population, to develop public health policy, and to ensure the implementation of effective programmes. The aim of this research is to find the metrics that will be useful for the final outcome assessment of social medicine activities. The theory and the concept of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) are relevant for the field of health care, but there is not much research on applying the BSC in preventive activities, especially those in the field of social medicine. Adjusted Balanced Scorecard is proposed for improving the effectiveness of performance assessment of current and future results. In a modified BSC, its perspectives and metrics help to achieve the set objectives and report critical outcomes through a strategic map. This research confirms the applicability and flexibility of the BSC and contributes to developing a set of common indicators that reflect the qualitative aspects of activities and enable effectiveness assessment of social medicine activities