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MEDICC
Review: The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine
 
New issue
now online! 
Gender
& Health in Cuba
 
In
this issue: an examination of gender and health in Cuba
with articles on incorporating a gender perspective in Cuba’s health system, right
to health care for transsexual people, breast cancer testimony, and portrayals
of sensitive social issues on Cuban TV serials.  Plus, original research on
hormones and menopausal women, kinanthropometric profile of Cuban women
volleyball champions, and visually-impaired child candidates for cochlear
implants in Cuba.
 
Featuring: Revolutionizing
Gender, an interview with Mariela Castro MS, Director, National Sex
Education Center.
 
“...inequities—not just sexual orientation and gender identity, but also
discrimination based on skin color, religious beliefs, where someone lives,
disabilities or any other…none of these have any place in our society, now or
in the future. ” Mariela Castro MS, Director,
National Sex Education Center, in MEDICC
Review.
 
Plus Thirty Years after
the Cuban Hemorrhagic Dengue Epidemic of 1981, a reprint.
 
 
MEDICC Reviewis an open-access peer-reviewed journal. Full-text
articles of
current and past issues may be freely viewed and downloaded at http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/

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MEDICC ReviewVol 14, No 2 April, 2012
 
Table of
Contents
 
Editorial
Gender & Health: Towards a Consensus on Rights,
Policy and Public Opinion
 
Interview
Revolutionizing
Gender: Mariela Castro MS, Director, National Sex Education Center, Cuba
Gail
Reed MS
 
Original Research
Hormone Profile of Menopausal Women in Havana
Daysi Navarro MD PhD, et al.
 
Kinanthropometric Profile of Cuban Women Volleyball Champions
William Carvajal MS, et al.
 
Cross-Modal Plasticity in Cuban Visually-Impaired Child Cochlear Implant
Candidates:
Topography of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials
Lidia E. Charroó-Ruíz MD MS, et
al.
 
Special Article
Speaking from Experience: Today’s Cuban Women and Breast Cancer
Marta
Núñez MS PhD
 
Perspective
The  Right
to Health Care for Transsexual People in Cuba
Alberto
Roque MD and R. Mayra Rodríguez MS
Incorporating a Gender Perspective into Cuba’s
Health System:
Realities and Challenges
Leticia
Artiles MS PhD
 
Lessons from the Field
Mental Health of Primary Caregivers for Children and Adolescents with
HIV/AIDS in Cuba,inrty Years after the
Cuban Hemorrhagic Dengue Epidemic of 1981, a reprint.ayals on Sensitive Social
Issues on Cuban TV Serials
Yasel Santiesteban, et al.
 
Abstracts
Cuban Research in
Current International Journals
 
Reprint
Thirty Years after the Cuban Hemorrhagic Dengue
Epidemic of 1981
María
G. Guzmán MD PhD DrSc
 
Viewpoint
High Time: Cuban TV Serials Spur Debate on Sensitive Social Issues
Dixie
E. Trinquete MS
 
About the Contributors
Learn more about the
Contributors
 

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 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. www.medicc.org
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