Technology transfer from havana hospitals to primary care: yamila de armas, MD. Deputy director, provincial health department, havana city province.

Erratum to: ‘A modified theoretical framework to assess implementation fidelity of adaptive public health interventions’

Author details Epidemiology Division, Tropical Medicine Institute “Pedro Kouri”, Autopista Novia del Mediodía, Km. 6 1⁄2, La Lisa, Marianao 13, PO Box 601, Havana City, Cuba. Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Latin-American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ha...

Cardiovascular Risk among Older Women in a Havana Health Area.

UNLABELLED Introduction Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality increase in women after menopause. Various scoring models assess qualitative risk of cardiovascular disease. The Framingham Heart Study global risk score is among the most widely used. Objective Determine level of coronary heart disease risk among women aged ≥60 years in a Havana health catchment area (geographic area whose resident...

Genes prove mixed ancestry of all Cubans: interview with Beatriz Marcheco MD PhD, Director, National Medical Genetics Center, Havana.

Cohort Profile: The 10/66 study

Cohort Profile: The 10/66 study A. Matthew Prina,* Daisy Acosta, Isaac Acostas, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, A.T. Jotheeswaran, Ivonne Z. Jimenez-Velazquez, Zhaorui Liu, Juan J. Llibre Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Joseph D. Williams and Martin Prince King’s College London, Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, London, UK, Universidad...

SNMMI Scientific Delegation to Cuba.

A s the delegation leader, I am pleased to summarize the first SNMMI Scientific Delegation visit to Cuba, October 9–14. This historic visit was initiated by an invitation from the Cuban Public Health Ministry and arranged by Professionals Abroad, Inc. (Washington, DC). SNMMI leadership and members of the society’s board of directors endorsed this proposition in June 2017, followed by an e-mail ...