1 M.D., Professor of the Forensic Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Social and Work Medicine Department of Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Ph.D. in Odontological Sciences Professor of Universidade Santa Cecília, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Ph.D. in Preventive Odontology– Professor of post-graduation in Forensic Medicine of Universidade de São Paulo – USP, São P...

1 Editorial 50 years of publishing social and preventive medicine and epidemiology and community health Fifty years ago a multidisciplinary group of professionals dedicated to promoting "social medicine" established this Journal with the support of the BM7. For the first four volumes, the British J7ournal of Social Medicine (as it was first called) had on the equivalent of its editorial board t...

Background: Social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. It is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. Methods: The key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...

Employment 1971-1973 Instructor, Tunghai University, Dept of Foreign Languages, Taichung, Taiwan 1979-1980 Lecturer, Hubei Provincial Medical College, Wuhan, China, Dept of Foreign Languages 1983-1987 Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1987-1993 Assistant Professor, Dept of Social Medicine, University of North C...

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

introduction: one of the objectives of the social medicine education is to train health workers who can manage the changing needs of the society. (zoladi et al. 1377). modern medicine mainly cares for the welfare of the society but it can not account for the treatment of the chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid fever, malaria, etc (pejvak periodical. 1378). social medicine acts as a g...