Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780415826679
Google: 4AgjmgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 17803522
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

Popular Participation in Venezuela’s Barrio Adentro Health Reform

QAMAR MAHMOOD*, CARLES MUNTANER**, ROSICAR DEL VALLE MATA LEÓN*** & RAMÓN ERNESTO PERDOMO***

*International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada

**University of Toronto, Canada & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

***Bolivarian University of Venezuela

Qamar Mahmood has been a senior program officer with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) since April 2011. Prior to this, he was a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) post-doctoral fellow in public health policy at the University of Toronto. Dr Mahmood obtained his Ph.D. in health and public policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2010 and a masters in health policy and management from Aga Khan University in (2002). His primary qualification is in medicine but he has worked in public health and public policy for most of his career. His career has focused on conducting and managing research in the areas of health equity, health systems and policy, social determinants of health, and political sociology of health among many others. His most recent research interests have been in the area of participatory democracy and health and especially in Latin America. He has worked in Pakistan, South Africa, and Canada and coordinated and managed research projects in several countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Carles Muntaner is Professor of Nursing, Public Health and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Work and Health, the Keenan Research Center at St Michaels Hospital, and the Center for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto and with the Department of Mental Health, at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore. As a founding member of the GREDS/EMCONET research group, he is also currently appointed at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has been Principal Investigator on primary data collection grants financed by NIDA, NIMH, NIOSH, and CDC in the US and CIHR in Canada. Approximately 170 of his 300 plus publications appear in the Web of Science. He has been first author of studies published in Psychopharmacology, American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Epidemiology, Annals of Epidemiology, Health and Place, and Social Science and Medicine among other journals. He has served as consultant for the PAHO and several governments in Latin America, including Venezuela and Chile. He participated in the ‘Marmot Review’ and is currently part of the review on social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European region. He co-chaired the Employment Conditions Network (EMCONET) of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. His awards include the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology section of the American Public Health Associations for his contributions of social epidemiology.

Rosicar del Valle Mata León obtained her Bachelor’s in nutrition and dietetics from the Central University of Venezuela in 1998. She has a Master’s degree in public health from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil specializing in management of public health from the Institute of Higher Studies in Public Health ‘Arnoldo Gabaldon’. She also has a Master’s in business management

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