Latin American critical ('Social') epidemiology: new settings for an old dream
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Latin American critical ('Social') epidemiology: new settings for an old dream.
BACKGROUND Epidemiology's role as the 'diagnostic' arm of public health has submitted epidemiological reasoning and practice to the crossfire of oppositional social values and demands. In Latin America, the visible signs of extreme social and political authoritarianism and inequity, as well as the growing unfairness of the World economy, inspired a culture of social critique and a corresponding...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn135