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Strategies for Disaster Management
Vol 10, No 3 - 2008

Table of Contents

Editorial
Before the Next Big One [free full text]

Policy & Practice
The Cuban Health Sector & Disaster Mitigation [free full text]
Guillermo Mesa, MD, MPhil

Feature
Report from the Field:
Psychological First Aid for Haiti’s Storm Orphans [free full text]
Gloria Giraldo, MPH

Interview
Cuba’s Man in Sichuan, China: José Rodríguez, MD [free full text]
Hope Bastian

You Can’t Stop the Rain: José Betancourt, MD, Cuban Civil Defense [free full text]
Gail Reed, MS

Original Scientific Articles
Research & Practice
Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Intensive Care Unit of a Havana Teaching Hospital,1998 to 2004 [free full text]
Albadio Pérez Assef, MD, MS, et al.

Health Strategies
Epidemiology of Asthma Mortality in Cuba and its Relation to Climate, 1989 to 2003 [free full text]
Silvia Josefina Venero Fernández, MD, et al.

Abstracts
Cuban Research in Current International Journals [free full text]

Reprints
Study of a Leptospirosis Outbreak in Honduras Following Hurricane Mitch and Prophylactic Protection of the vax-SPIRAL® Vaccine [free full text]
Mariela Naranjo, et al.
VacciMonitor

International Cooperation Report
Cuban Health Cooperation Turns 45 [free full text]
Conner Gorry

Viewpoint
Women in the Middle: Cuba’s Sandwich Generation [free full text]
Leticia Artiles, PhD, MS

About the Contributors
Learn more about the Contributors [free full text]

Erratum
Association between blood lipids and types of stroke. [free full text]

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