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Marcos Cueto

Bio: Marcos Cueto is an academic researcher from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Latin Americans & Public health. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 106 publications receiving 3627 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcos Cueto include Pontifical Catholic University of Peru & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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TL;DR: This analysis of the global workforce proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries.

1,402 citations

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TL;DR: A historical study of the role played by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the emergence and diffusion of the concept of primary health care during the late 1970s and early 1980s is presented.
Abstract: I present a historical study of the role played by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in the emergence and diffusion of the concept of primary health care during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I have analyzed these organizations' political context, their leaders, the methodologies and technologies associated with the primary health care perspective, and the debates on the meaning of primary health care. These debates led to the development of an alternative, more restricted approach, known as selective primary health care. My study examined library and archival sources; I cite examples from Latin America.

618 citations

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TL;DR: It is argued that WHO began to refashion itself as the coordinator, strategic planner, and leader of global health initiatives as a strategy of survival in response to this transformed international political context.
Abstract: Even a quick glance at the titles of books and articles in recent medical and public health literature suggests that an important transition is underway. The terms ‘global’, ‘globalization’, and their variants are everywhere, and in the specific context of international public health, ‘global’ seems to be emerging as the preferred authoritative term.1 As one indicator, the number of entries under the rubrics ‘global’ and ‘international’ health in PubMed shows that ‘global’ health is rapidly on the rise, seemingly on track to overtake ‘international’ health at some point in 2005 (see Table 5.1). Although universities, government agencies, and private philanthropies are all using the term in highly visible ways, the origin and meaning of the term ‘global health’ are still unclear.2

579 citations

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TL;DR: The authors in this article outline four phases in the history of Latin American countries that explain the roots of segmentation in health care and describe three paths taken by countries seeking to overcome it: unification of the funds used to finance both social security and Ministry of Health services (one public payer), free choice of provider or insurer; and expansion of services to poor people and the non-salaried population by making explicit the health-care benefits to which all citizens are entitled.

127 citations

01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: Four phases in the history of Latin American countries that explain the roots of segmentation in health care are outlined and three paths taken by countries seeking to overcome it are described: unification of the funds used to finance both social security and Ministry of Health services (one public payer); free choice of provider or insurer; and expansion of services to poor people and the non-salaried population by making explicit the health-care benefits to which all citizens are entitled.
Abstract: Latin America continues to segregate diff erent social groups into separate health-system segments, including two separate public sector blocks: a well resourced social security for salaried workers and their families and a Ministry of Health serving poor and vulnerable people with low standards of quality and needing a frequently impoverishing payment at point of service. This segregation shows Latin America’s longstanding economic and social inequality, cemented by an economic framework that predicted that economic growth would lead to rapid formalisation of the economy. Today, the institutional setup that organises the social segregation in health care is perceived, despite improved life expectancy and other advances, as a barrier to fulfi lling the right to health, embodied in the legislation of many Latin American countries. This Series paper outlines four phases in the history of Latin American countries that explain the roots of segmentation in health care and describe three paths taken by countries seeking to overcome it: unifi cation of the funds used to fi nance both social security and Ministry of Health services (one public payer); free choice of provider or insurer; and expansion of services to poor people and the non-salaried population by making explicit the health-care benefi ts to which all citizens are entitled.

118 citations


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16 Dec 2011-Science
TL;DR: A measure of dependence for two-variable relationships: the maximal information coefficient (MIC), which captures a wide range of associations both functional and not, and for functional relationships provides a score that roughly equals the coefficient of determination of the data relative to the regression function.
Abstract: Identifying interesting relationships between pairs of variables in large data sets is increasingly important. Here, we present a measure of dependence for two-variable relationships: the maximal information coefficient (MIC). MIC captures a wide range of associations both functional and not, and for functional relationships provides a score that roughly equals the coefficient of determination (R2) of the data relative to the regression function. MIC belongs to a larger class of maximal information-based nonparametric exploration (MINE) statistics for identifying and classifying relationships. We apply MIC and MINE to data sets in global health, gene expression, major-league baseball, and the human gut microbiota and identify known and novel relationships.

2,414 citations

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TL;DR: The purpose is to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned and to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective.
Abstract: The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.

1,334 citations