<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">MEDICC Review: The International
Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">New issue now online: Innovating for Global Health
Equity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">The topics</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">: an overview of the
Global Forum for Health Research, Forum 2009, overcoming obstacles to better
research on the social determinants of health, moving beyond Open Access
towards open data, plus exploration of South-South collaboration in health
biotechnology. Also in this issue: stroke and risk factors in older Cuban
adults and Cuban recombinant erithropoyetin for anemia in pediatric cancer
patients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">“What we are addressing is the false dichotomy between
high-tech health care (often reserved for elites) and low-tech primary health
care (for the broad population). The key is developing both to serve everyone,”
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr José
Miyar, Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment, in a Special
Article with his remarks from the plenary session of Forum 2009: Innovating for
the Health of All.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Plus: </span><b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Once the Earth Stood Still (Part II):
Cuban Rehabilitation Services in Haiti</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">, a special report from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">MEDICC
Review’s</i> senior editor on assignment in Port-au-Prince, on Cuban medical
teams addressing mental health issues in post-earthquake Haiti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> Vol. 12, No 3 July, 2010</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Issue Preview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Editorial<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=148&a=va">Research
for Health Equity: Knowing is Not Enough</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:teal;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=7&id=68&a=va"></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Policy
& Practice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=149&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Global Forum for Health Research, Forum 2009:
Innovating for the Health of All</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Susan
Jupp MA<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interview<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=150&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Shaping a Research Agenda to Solve Health
Problems:<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=150&a=va">Niviola
Cabrera MD, Director of Science and Technology, Ministry of Public Health, Cuba</a></span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gail Reed MS<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feature<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=151&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Three-Pronged Innovation to Improve Care for
Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in Cuba</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">Gloria Giraldo MPH<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Special
Article<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=152&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Limited Financial Resources Need Not Mean
Poor Health Outcomes</span></a><br>
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">José Miyar MD<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Original
Research<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=153&a=va">Prevalence
of Stroke and Associated Risk Factors in Older Adults in Havana City and
Matanzas Provinces, Cuba (10/66 Population-Based Study)</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
ES">Juan de Jesús Libre MD MPH PhD, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
ES"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.2in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=154&a=va">Efficacy
and Safety of ior®EPOCIM for Chemotherapy- or Radiotherapy-Induced Anemia in
Pediatric Cancer Patients</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
ES">Alicia Vargas MS, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Perspective<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=155&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Cuba and Brazil: <br>
An Important Example of South-South Collaboration in Health Biotechnology</span></a><span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><br>
</span></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Tirso
W. Sáenz DrSc, et al.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=156&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Overcoming Barriers to Improved Research on
the Social Determinants of Health</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">Fran Baum PHd<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006566;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=157&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Cuban Research in Current International
Journals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Cooperation Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=158&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Once the Earth Stood Still (Part II):<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Mental Health Services in Post-Quake Haiti</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Conner Gorry MA<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#006566"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Viewpoint<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/index.php?issue=13&id=159&a=va"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Innovations for Global Health Equity: Beyond
Open Access towards Open Data</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Emma Veitch PHD and Virginia Barbour MB BChir DPhil<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">MEDICC Review: The International
Journal of Cuban Health & Medicine</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> 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. <b><i>MEDICC Review</i></b>
is published by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Medical Education
Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)</b>, a </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">non-profit organization working to enhance
cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed at better
health outcomes.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.medicc.org/">www.medicc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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