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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(4):724-728; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn148
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

The Latin American Social Medicine Database: a resource for epidemiology

Howard Waitzkin1,*, Celia Iriart2, Holly Shipp Buchanan3, Francisco Mercado4, Jonathan Tregear3 and Jonathan Eldredge3

1 Departments of Sociology, Family & Community Medicine, and Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, MSC 05 3080, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.
2 Department of Family & Community Medicine, MSC09 5040, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 USA.
3 Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, MSC09 5100, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 USA.
4 Department of Public Health, Health Sciences Center, University of Guadalajara, Apartado Postal 1-2044, Guadalajara, Mexico.

* Corresponding author: University of New Mexico, MSC 05 3080, 1070 Social Sciences Building, 1915 Roma NE, Room 1103, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 USA. E-mail: waitzkin@unm.edu

Accepted 17 June 2008

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Latin American social medicine (LASM) has become a widely respected and influential field of research, teaching and clinical practice, yet its accomplishments remain little known in the English-speaking and -reading world.1–3 Important publications have not been translated from Spanish and Portuguese into English, and the majority of LASM journals are not indexed in MEDLINE or similar bibliographic databases. The field's development also suffers from technical difficulties of publication and distribution within Latin America.

In LASM, a perspective emphasizing the social origins of illness and early death has focused on sources of these problems in relations of economic and political power. This orientation has contributed to the analysis of inequity in health and to alternative proposals for change. For instance, LASM analyses critically some of the dominant reform strategies in public health systems, offers proposals for alternative health policies and fosters research on the micro- and macro-political processes that affect health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Key activities and features of the information system
 
Phases
Emphases
Work process
Format of abstracts and search capacity
Online publishing of LASM journals
Repository for LASM journals and books
Evaluation

   Specific accomplishments
 
Trilingual structured abstracts
Journals abstracted
Online publishing of LASM journals
Evaluation

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