Focused on international development, global health, and health policy, Health & Development is Doctors with Africa CUAMM’s journal. It explores health as a key driver of sustainable development, featuring articles on our field work, lessons learned, and best practices, alongside contributions and commentary from international experts.
An online edition is also available, offering additional content on these topics as well as expanded versions of selected articles from the print issue.
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A new profession is making headway: the medical specialist in Global health. These physicians have “the world in their head”, because they are aware of the relationships between individual and society, are conscious of balance and justice among countries, and have a holistic approach to health. Besides being doctors, they are bona fide advocates
advancing social justice, through health equity
Massive migration flows as the result of people fleeing their homes toescape famine, conflict, natural disasters and the devastatingconsequences of climate change. Every day thousands of human beingsmove from one region or country to another, many undertaking extremelydangerous sea crossings. We would like to dedicate this edition of ourmagazine to these individuals, to all those who are forced to migrate insearch of lives of health, dignity, and economic and social opportunity
For many women and for many children the lead up to the day of birth is a real labyrinth in which access to care present many difficulties. The course resembles a fine, tangled thread, rather an umbilical cord, where knots and tangles are smoothed out with force and determination, taking mother and child to their birth day
The professionals behind the desk
Gavino Maciocco, University of Florence
Anna Talami, Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Chiara Di Benedetto, Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Andrea Atzori, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Andrea Berti, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Dante Carraro, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Adriano Cattaneo, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Donata Dalla Riva, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Silvio Donà, Padua Hospital; Fabio Manenti, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Ana Pilar Betran Lazaga, WHO – Maternal and Child Health; Giovanni Putoto, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Angelo Stefanini, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Anna Talami, Doctors with Africa CUAMM; Ademe Tsegaye, WHO Global Civil Society Task Force on TB; Calistus Wilunda, Monitoring and Evaluation – Kyoto University; Martha Nyagaya, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation