SOCIAL MEDICINE IN LATIN AMERICA

本项目旨在阐明 拉丁美洲社会医学在拉丁美洲，社会医学 强调疾病的病因学和治疗中的社会条件。 从智利的一个基地，该项目将建立在申请人的事先 通过在社会领域的进一步培训和经验， 在拉丁美洲的医疗环境中。 以拉丁文为指导 美国同事，该项目的方法将包括审查 西班牙语出版物和未出版的文献，档案研究， 并与领导人，医疗保健从业人员和外行进行了重点访谈， 参与社会医学项目。 会议将审议的主题 该项目包括美国国立卫生研究院的几个重点 (NIH)社会、环境和营养因素， 围产期死亡率（NICHHD）;经济发展，人口变化， 癌症预防的社会经济障碍（NCI）; 种族或族裔背景、社会背景和文化背景中的精神疾病决定因素 阶级、性别和社会暴力（NIMH）。 特别是，该项目 将阐明这一领域的社会科学观点。 关注 将致力于争议和辩论的来源。 该项目将 导致出版物，第一次将这些小 以系统的方式向英语读者介绍已知的观点。

This project aims to clarify the development and current applications of Latin American social medicine. In Latin America, social medicine has emphasized social conditions in the etiology and treatment of disease. From a base in Chile, the project will build on the applicant's prior research in this field through further training and experience in social medicine within the Latin American setting. With guidance from Latin American colleagues, the project's methodology will include a review of publications and unpublished literature in Spanish, study of archives, and focused interviews with leaders, health care practitioners, and lay participants in social medicine programs. Themes to be considered in the project include several emphases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH): social, environmental, and nutrition causes of infant and perinatal mortality (NICHHD); economic development, demographic change, and aging (NIA); socioeconomic barriers to cancer prevention (NCI); and determinants of mental illness in racial or ethnic background, social class, gender, and social violence (NIMH). In particular, the project will elucidate social scientific perspectives in this field. Attention will be devoted to sources of controversy and debate. The project will lead to publications that for the first time will bring these little known perspectives in a systematic way to English-language readers.