PHA-Exch> disaster response and health in Cuba: new publication now online

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Now Online: New Resource on disaster response in Cuba

At the request of readers in the wake of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, MEDICC Review offers
open access to all contents of its latest issue, including articles detailing the role of
the Cuban health sector and Civil Defense in efforts to provide universal services in
disaster situations.

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Our attention is drawn to Cuba’s evolving strategies and cumulative results because,
among other reasons, they provide an example of a public disaster mitigation, response
and recovery model; they describe the country’s defense primarily against tropical
cyclones, the world’s most reported type of meteorological disaster in 2007; and they are
generated in a resource-constrained environment, similar to the rest of the Caribbean and
many other developing nations.”

Strategies for Disaster Management
Vol 10, No 3 – 2008


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Issue Preview
Editorial
Before the Next Big One

Policy & Practice
The Cuban Health Sector & Disaster Mitigation

Features
Psychological First Aid for Haiti’s Storm Orphans

Cuban Health Cooperation Turns 45

Interviews
Cuba’s Man in Sichuan, China: José Rodríguez, MD

You Can’t Stop the Rain: José Betancourt, MD, Cuban Civil Defense

Plus Original Scientific Articles on:
Severe Maternal Morbidity
Climate and Asthma Mortality in Cuba

MEDICC Review:The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine is a quarterly,
peer-reviewed journal publishing original articles by Cuban and international researchers
on themes such as Cuban population health, strategies for health equity, policy and
practice, biomedical R&D, health systems, health outcomes, human resources in health, and
international cooperation in the health sector.



MEDICC Review, the first journal of its kind in English, is published by Medical Education
Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC), a US non-profit organization of medical educators.  Its
international Editorial Board includes 40 members from 13 countries in North America,
Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.





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