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

[Garance UPHAM]

You have not added a weblink in English??
I was unable to find it with Google
Nance

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM,  <connergo at infomed.sld.cu> wrote:
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> Now Online: New Resource on disaster response in Cuba
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> 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."
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> 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
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> Features
> Psychological First Aid for Haiti's Storm Orphans
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> Cuban Health Cooperation Turns 45
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> Interviews
> Cuba's Man in Sichuan, China: José Rodríguez, MD
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> You Can't Stop the Rain: José Betancourt, MD, Cuban Civil Defense
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> Plus Original Scientific Articles on:
> Severe Maternal Morbidity
> Climate and Asthma Mortality in Cuba
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> 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.
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> 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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