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Mauricio L Barreto, Editor

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This issue opens with Ramón and Ballester in speaker’scorner discussing the adverse neurological effects of mercuryexposure through fish consumption, the main source of humanexposure to methylmercury in developed countries. The authorshighlight the potential health impacts of such exposure, especiallyduring pregnancy, focussing on reproductive outcomes. (page378) In an editorial Espinoza and Barten comment on the latestversion of a proposal for health reform in El Salvador. Theyclaim that it is no longer possible to delay the revival ofthe comprehensive primary healthcare principles stated in theAlma Ata Declaration, which was aborted or sidestepped becauseof the crisis of the 1980s, the rise of neoliberalism and theperceived threat to political control posed by strengthenedsocial organisation and greater community participation. (page380)

In public health past and present, Vallgårda’s articlelooks at health checks for pregnant women and children in Denmark. . . [Full text of this article]

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