February 2018
This issue of HCSM (vol 24 no 4 Oct-Dec 2017) offers a varied selection of articles from different areas of knowledge, thematic fields and approaches.
The Latin American perspective, which is prevalent in the articles of this issue, has acquired Caribbean nuances in the “Public Health Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean dossier”, coordinated by historian Henrice Altink (University of York, England)” , the researcher Magali Romero Sá (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, Brazil) and Professor Debbie McCollin (University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago).
The articles are the outcome of the presentations of three meetings staged by the cooperation between Casa de Oswaldo Cruz and the University of York that took place in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The five papers that make up the dossier present the dynamics of public health, politics and culture in countries such as Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Peru and Bolivia, and the knowledge circulation networks with Europe and the United States.
This issue also features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to its transmission and correlation with microcephaly.
In the “Analysis” section, we highlight nine articles, covering a variety of topics, such as the Latin American social medicine journals from the 1970s and 1980s, the health crisis in Colombia, and the rights of terminal patients in Argentina.
