July 2016 issue now online…

 

MEDICC Review is the first peer-reviewed journal in English featuring original Cuban medical and population health research, public health policy and practice. The journal also carries international research and writing on themes related to health equity. 

 

MEDICC Review is an OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL, freely available online.

Editors’ Choice:

• Cuba’s Approach to Clinical Trials
• Controversies in Gestational Diabetes Detection
• Suicide Epidemiology in Cuba 

Also in this issue:

 

• Pathways to Universal Health
  
• Where Are the Bikes in Havana?
  
• Intersectoral Action to Delay Youth Drinking
  
• Saharan Dust and Human Health
  

And more...

 

Table of Contents July 2016 (Vol 18, No 3)

 

Editorial

Much Ado about Something: Cuban Biotech

 

Interview

Charting the Course to Universal Health in the Americas:

Christian Morales PhD, PAHO/WHO Representative in Cuba

Gail Reed MS

 

Feature

The ABCs of Clinical Trials in Cuba

Conner Gorry MA

 

Original Research

Epidemiology of Suicide in Cuba, 1987–2014

Beatriz Corona-Miranda MD MS, et al.

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Lessons from the Field

Improving Disability Care in Countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America

Miriam Portuondo-Sao MD PhD, et al. 

An Intersectoral Intervention to Prevent Early Alcohol Use in Cuban Adolescents

Justo R. Fabelo-Roche MS PhD, et al.

Perspective

Alcohol Control in Cuba: Preventing Countervailing Cultural and Mass Media Influences

Ricardo A. González-Menéndez MD Phd DrSc 

 

Saharan Dust Effects on Human Health: A Challenge for Cuba’s Researchers

Silvia J. Venero-Fernández MD MS

 

Controversies in Screening and Diagnosis of Gestational Diabetes: Cuba’s Position

Jeddú Cruz-Hernández MD MS, et al.

 

Reprint

Universal Health Coverage and its Conceptual Interpretation

(Revista Cubana de Salud Pública)

Estela de los Ángeles Gispert Abreu, et al.

 

Viewpoint

Havana: A Bike-Friendly City?

Miguel Coyula MArch

Abstracts

Cuban Research in Current International Journals

 

About the Contributors

About the Contributors