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Latin America

Themed issue, published Nov 10, 2007


Executive summary
There has been substantial progress in public health among the people of Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades: child mortality has halved, and life expectancy has increased by an average of 6 years throughout the region. But these indicators of progress mask some huge disparities in health and poverty between and within countries in Latin America. A Latin America themed issue (Nov 10, 2007) explored many of the key health issues in this region.
Issue Comments
A clarion call for greater investment in global sanitation
David Durrheim
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Reduction of maternal depression: much remains to be done
Rhonda Small, Judith Lumley
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Empowering women in Brazil
Simone Grilo Diniz, Debra Bick, Maria Helena Bastos, Maria Luiza Riesco
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Improving translational biomedical research in Chile
Jorge Jiménez, Alexis Kalergis
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Health inequality in Latin America
José M Belizán, María L Cafferata, María Belizán, Fernando Althabe
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Issue Articles
Effect of city-wide sanitation programme on reduction in rate of childhood diarrhoea in northeast Brazil: assessment by two cohort studies
Mauricio L Barreto, Bernd Genser, Agostino Strina, Maria Gloria Teixeira, Ana Marlucia O Assis, Rita F Rego, Carlos A Teles, Matildes S Prado, Sheila MA Matos, Darci N Santos, Lenaldo A dos Santos, Sandy Cairncross
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Treatment of postnatal depression in low-income mothers in primary-care clinics in Santiago, Chile: a randomised controlled trial
Graciela Rojas, Rosemarie Fritsch, Jaime Solis, Enrique Jadresic, Cristóbal Castillo, Marco González, Viviana Guajardo, Glyn Lewis, Tim J Peters, Ricardo Araya
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