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MEDICC Review: The International Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine
 
The only English-language journal covering Cuban health and medicine. Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet, describes it as“Beautifully produced and full of valuable work. Fabulous.” (July 8, 2013, pic.twitter.com/M7POHduHLS)
 
New issue now online!
 
Mental Health Matters
 
In this issue: approaches to substance abuse in Cuba, complex psychology of obesity in young Cubans, depression among rural senior adults in India, smoking and alcohol use in health sciences students, the healing power of humor, and aging and dementia. 
 
“Whereas before we had a medical approach to mental health, from the mid 1990s, we began looking at the entire health picture.  We adopted a more integrated approach of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.”  Dr Carmen Borrego, director of the National Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse Program, Ministry of Public Health, Cuba.
 
Featuring: Community Mental Health Services in Cuba
 
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 4 October, 2013
 
Table of Contents
 
Editorial
Mental Health: It’s Not All in Your Head
 
Letters
 
Interview
Approaches to Substance Abuse in Cuba: Ricardo A. González MD PhD DrSc
Eduardo B. Ordaz Psychiatric Hospital, Havana
Christina Mills MD FRCPC
 
Feature
Community Mental Health Services in Cuba
Conner Gorry MA
 
Therapeutic Clowns Bring Joy to Cuban Patients
Conner Gorry MA
 
Original Research
Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption among Health Sciences Students in Cuba and Mexico
Justo R. Fabelo MS PhD, et al.
 
Psychological, Behavioral and Familial Factors in Obese Cuban Children and Adolescents
Lourdes M. Pérez MD MS, et al.
 
HIV/AIDS among Women in  Havana, Cuba: l986–2011
Dinorah C. Oliva MD MS, et al.
 
Total Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Management Using Two Prediction Tools,
with and without Blood Cholesterol
Porfirio Nordet MD, et al.
 
Lessons from the Field
Depression in an Older Adult Rural Population in India
Sati P. Sinha MD, et al.
 
Frequency and Antimicrobial Sensitivity of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma
hominis in Patients with Vaginal Discharge
Leonor Díaz MD MS, et al.
 
Abstracts
Cuban Research in Current International Journals
 
Reprint
Aging and Dementia: Implications for Cuba’s Research Community, Public Health and Society
Juan de Jesús Llibre Rodríguez MD MPH PhD
Revista Anales de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba
 
Viewpoint
Burnout among Cuban Nurses: Out of the Shadows
Margarita Chacón MS PhD
 
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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