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  • Primary Health Care-Myth or Reality

    Second Edition

    by Herminio Raúl Rojo, Emiliano Lucas Rojo, Rafael Luis Laperchia, Carlos Alberto Leiva, Guillermina Mercedes Rojo, Pilar Echave, María Emilia Cermignani, Paula Sosa ...
    With Primary Health Care: Myth or Reality, Drs. Rojo examine the influential international role that the Alma-Ata strategy has assumed. It remains a determining factor for nations, and despite the passage of time, continues to be a key component in delivering healthcare services to their populations. The chapters, diverse in content, offer both descriptions and opinions, providing the reader with ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • Migration Between Mexico and the United States

    IMISCOE Regional Reader

    Edited by Agustín Escobar Latapí, Claudia Masferrer ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of COVID-19 in Mexico

    Governance Meets Government

    Edited by Thomas F Legler ...
    Series series The Politics of Pandemics
    This book evaluates the factors behind Mexico’s painful experience with the Covid-19 crisis, a country that ranked fifth in the world for the number of deaths caused by the virus. Through a series of vignettes, its authors point to pandemic politics as the culprit. With a focus on the nexus of global governance and government in the Mexican case, they underline the politicized nature of domestic, ... Read more

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  • Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire

    by Howard Waitzkin ...
    The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many countries are considering new approaches to health care for their citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced global health ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Latin American Perspectives on the Sociology of Health and Illness

    Edited by Fernando De Maio, Ignacio Llovet, Graciela Dinardi ...
    The sociology of health and illness is a rapidly growing field. Yet, as a field, it has suffered from a remarkably limited perspective dominated by scholarship produced in the global north. Scholars in the sociology of health and illness have been late to enter debates in global health and have generally failed to learn lessons from work originating in the global south. To begin to address this ... Read more

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  • Banking on Health

    The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America

    by Shiri Noy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and Washington DC, this book argues that the answer to this puzzle is twofold. First, the World Bank has ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

    by Alexa S. Dietrich ...
    "This fascinating and most timely criticalmedical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas ofcontemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature andsignificant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on humansocial life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paceddegradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . ... Read more

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  • They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields

    Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers

    by Sarah Bronwen Horton ...
    Series Book 40 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California’s Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. Through captivating accounts of the daily lives of a core group of farmworkers over nearly a decade, Sarah Bronwen Horton ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America

    Edited by Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar ...
    This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries’ capacity to respond to current and future ... Read more

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  • Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America

    Policy Interactions and Urban Outcomes in Mexico City

    by David López-García ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City.Four empirical studies provide the reader with a comprehensive view ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy

    Edited by Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, David Castro Lugo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics
    This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the factors that inhibit women's participation in the labor market, studies occupational segregation by gender and analyzes labor transitions, questioning whether the experience for men and women differs. It also explores the effect of entrepreneurship support programs on women's ... Read more

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