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MEDICC Review: The International
Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine
 
New issue now online: Child & Adolescent Health
 
The topics: Cuba’s national pediatric cardiology network,
the scope of childhood cancer on the island, and innovative UNICEF-supported programs
being adopted by other Latin American countries, plus emerging public health
challenges such as childhood obesity. Also in this issue: maternal morbidity in
ICUs, and hospital management in times of economic crisis.
 
“I always say that applying the tenets of the
Convention of the Rights of the Child isn’t a question of resources, but rather
one of political will,”  José Juan Ortiz,
UNICEF Representative in Cubain MEDICC
Review.
 
Plus: Once the Earth Stood Still (Part
I):  Cuban Rehabilitation Services in
Haiti, a special report from MEDICC Review’s senior editor on
assignment in Port-au-Prince, on Cuban medical teams serving beyond the
emergency phase of earthquake recovery.
 
MEDICC Reviewonlineis an open-access peer-reviewed journal. The entire contents of current and past issues may be freely viewed and downloaded. 

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MEDICC ReviewVol. 12, No 2 - 2010
 
Issue Preview
 
Editorial
Child
Health: A Global Responsibility
Letters to the Editors
Letters
to the Editors
 
Policy & Practice
Cuba’s
National Pediatric Cardiology Program
Ramón Casanova, MD, PhD, et
al.
 
Interview
Protecting
Children Takes More Will than Resources:  José Juan Ortiz, UNICEF Representative in Cuba
Conner Gorry, MA
 
Original Scientific Articles
Research & Practice
Excess
Weight and Adiposity in Children and Adolescents in Havana, Cuba:  Prevalence and Trends, 1972 to 2005
Mercedes Esquivel,
MD, PhD, et al.
 
Research & Practice
Childhood
Cancer Incidence in Cuba, 2001 to 2003
Priscila Torres,
MD, et al.
 
Research & Practice
Characterization
of Obstetric Patients with Multiple Organ Failure in the Intensive Care Unit of
a Havana Teaching Hospital, 1998 to 2006
Albadio Pérez, MD, PhD, MS, et
al.
 
Abstracts
Cuban
Research in Current International Journals
 
Reprint
Public
Hospital Management in Times of Crisis:  Lessons
Learned from Cienfuegos, Cuba (1996—2008)
Pol De Vos, et al. 
 
International Cooperation
Report
Once
the Earth Stood Still (Part I):  Cuban
Rehabilitation Services in Haiti
Conner Gorry, MA
 
AndViewpoint
Fitness
vs. Obesity in Cuban Children:  Battling
the Biases of Gender and Geography
Manuel Hernández-Triana, MD, PhD
 
MEDICC Review: The International
Journal of Cuban Health & Medicineis a quarterly, peer-reviewed, open-access 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 non-profit organization working to enhance
cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed at better
health outcomes. Its international Editorial Board
includes 43 members from 14 countries in North America, Africa, Europe, Latin
America and the Caribbean. www.medicc.org/mediccreview 


      
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