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MEDICC
Review: The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine
 
New issue now online!
Learning from Cuban
Primary Health Care
 
In
this issue: the evolution of Cuba’s family nurses, integral to
the family doctor-and-nurse teams that serve as the foundation for the
country’s primary health care system; the lack of published research from Cuban
primary health care; neighborhood & household influences on
health risks; predicting diabetes risk in primary care,
ventilator-associated pneumonia in a Havana ICU, and implications of Cuba’s
current health reform. 
 
“The doctor-and-nurse
teams next door, community polyclinics, maternity homes, mental health centers,
seniors’ day centers—all form part of a network of over 12,000 facilities
dedicated to resolving some 80% of population health problems, compared to
under 200 facilities at other levels of care.”
 
Featuring: An historical overview of how
Cuba eliminated polio
 
MEDICC
Review is 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 Review Vol 15, No 2 April, 2013
 
Table of Contents
 
Editorial 
Primary
Health Care: Starting Point for Health Equity  
 
Feature 
Primary
Care Forward: Raising the Profile of Cuba's Nursing Profession
Conner Gorry MA
 
Original
Research
Contextual
and Individual Influences on Diabetes and Heart Disease in Havana Primary Care
Catchment Areas
Georgia
Díaz-Perera MD MPH PhD, et al.
 
Diabetes
Risk in a Cuban Primary Care Setting in Persons with No Known Glucose
Abnormalities
Adrian A.
Naranjo, et al.
 
Prognostic
Value of Gated SPECT after Reperfusion for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Lázaro O. Cabrera-Rodríguez MD, et al. 
 
Nosocomial
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Cuban Intensive Care Units: Bacterial
Species and Antibiotic Resistance
Manuel Medell,
at al.
 
Review Article
Poliomyelitis
and its Elimination in Cuba: An Historical Overview
Enrique
Beldarraín MD PhD
 
Lessons
from the Field
Baseline
Research for Action: Adolescent Alcohol Consumption in Los Palacios Municipality,
Cuba
Yolanda
Díaz MS and Yairelis Espinosa
 
Abstracts
Cuban
Research in Current International Journals
 
Reprint
Overview
of Evolving Changes in Cuba's Health Services   
Luisa
Iñiguez DrSc  Revista Cubana de Salud Pública
 
Viewpoint
Cuban
Publishing on Primary Health Care: An Inexcusable Absence 
Mikhail
Benet MD PhD
 
About
the Contributors
Learn More About the Contributors
MEDICC
Review: The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine is 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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