Repository of papers published after retirement from state jobs as M.D. in Journals & Encyclopedia or just posted in personal web sites (no blogs), including anonymous, confidential, and other documents, written by Rodolfo J. Stusser, M.D., M.PH, M.Sc. in Havana as Freelance Consultant Researcher & Professor from 2006 to March 2010, and in Miami until 2012:
Forthcoming Publications:
-Research Challenges of Primary Health Care Medicine Progress. Miami, Fl., Dic. 11, 2011. (Essay under review in the UNESCO EOLSS.com, Paris, France) [web preview]
-Health and living levels equity in Cuba 1959-2011: Human development or deterioration? (In preparation).
-Expanding Primary Preventive/Healing Care Clinical Methods & Lifelong Health Maintenance Semiology/Nosology. (Starting a paper).
(Looking for English editor/publisher)
-Cuba's Population Health Duration & Quality Standards & Levels: Advances, Stagnations & Setbacks, 1900-58; 1959-2012. (Book in preparation).
-Scientific Method-Logic & Psycho-Sociology of Primary/Secondary/Tertiary Health Care Medicine Creative/Inventive Research. (Book in preparation).
Projected Tele-Conference Sites:
(Looking for powerful English web hosts)
-Global Living & Health Care Research Logic/Methodology Teleconference Site
-Global Primary Care Invention/Discovery Logic/Methodology Teleconference Site
Delayed presentations:
-Understanding Cuba's Universal Primary Health Care Impact with Human Rights Suppressed & Other Living Standards Depressed, in 2011 AAFP Global Health Workshop, San Diego, Oct. 14. It could not be presented due to lack of interest in this unconventional approach and funds to go.
-Value of the demystification of the Cuban healthcare system planning the transition. University of Miami – Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies in September 2011. It has been delayed its presentation until 2012.
Already Published:
64. Stusser RJ. Lecture on Health and Living Levels in Cuba 1959-2011: Human Development or Deterioration? University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2012.
63. Stusser RJ. Demystifying the Cuban health system: Insider´s view. Cuba in Transition 2012;21. [2011 ASCE Conf. Proceeding]
62. Stusser RJ. Lecture on Cuban Health: Maternal and Infant Care and Mortality Reduction. Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Grand Rounds, Howard University School of Medicine Hospital, Washington, D.C., Oct. 21, 2011.
61. Stusser RJ. Comments and Suggestions for a new Global Public Health Informatics Research Agenda. CDC Global/PHI Conference, Atlanta, Aug. 20–24, 2011. http://rational.fortunecity.com/commentgphi.htm
60. Stusser RJ. Enhancing primary health care medicine research creativity in distant practices through online consultancy
(personal project). CDC Global/PHI Conference, Atlanta, Aug. 20–24, 2011. http://rational.fortunecity.com/cdcgphi/researchcreativity/researchcreativity.htm
59. Stusser RJ. Lecture on Medicine, public health and research in Cuba. University of Miami School of Medicine, Global Health Course, July 26, 2011.
58. Stusser RJ. Clarifying Confusions # 5: Cuban revolutionary health myths, fables and miracles vs. health facts, realities and insights before and after 1959. Miami, Fl., April 25, 2011.
57. Stusser RJ. Clarifying Confusions # 4: Cuban revolutionary political-military, socioeconomic-cultural myths, fables, miracles, facts, realities and insights 1902-2011. Miami, Fl., April 13, 2011.
56. Stusser RJ. Clarifying Confusions # 3: Cuban revolution mythology: complete mythmaking process, mythmakers, myth disseminators, and intentional and involuntary myth defenders. Miami, Fl., April 5, 2011.
55. Stusser RJ. Cuba’s Infant and Maternal Mortalities Ratios: Measuring International Living and Health Status. Research Project Proposal to Apply for a Grant in the University of Miami. Miami, Fl., April 2, 2011.
54. Stusser RJ. A Primary Care Research Creativity Training and Consulting Unit. Project Proposal to Support Primary Care Medicine Research in the University of Miami. Miami, Fl., March 2, 2011.
53. Stusser RJ. Research Challenges of Primary Care Medicine. Miami, Fl., Dec. 11, 2011. (Essay under review in the UNESCO EOLSS.com, Paris, France)
52. Stusser RJ. Comment: Cheers to Harvard for Launching a $30 Million Center for Primary Care. AAFP News Now 2010 (Nov. 8). http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/resident-student-focus/20101103hmsprimcarectr.html or http://rational.fortunecity.com/harvardpccenter.htm
51. Stusser RJ. Conceptual foundations and operational basics to improve an innovative model of concierge health promotion and preventive medicine center project for Third World top tourist attractions. Miami, Fl., Nov. 5, 2010.
50. Stusser RJ. Clarifying Confusions # 2: Cuban physicians’ drain or waste, captivity, slavery and international use as mere merchandise and agents of propaganda and subversion. Miami, Sep. 13, 2010. http://rational.fortunecity.com/confusions2.htm
49. Stusser RJ. Cuba's Health Standards and Levels: Advances and Setbacks, 1900-2010. Research Project Proposal to Apply for a John W. Kluge Fellowship (Sept. 2011-June 2012) in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Miami, Fl., July 6, 2010.
48. Stusser RJ. Talks on Health Care Insights of Cuban Infant Mortality and Life Expectancy Improvements to Heads of Depts. of Pediatrics and of Family Medicine; Howard School of Medicine, Washington DC, May 3-4, 2010.
47. Stusser RJ. Talk on Insights on Cuba’s Medicine Career & Profession to Medical Students, in Yale University School of Medicine; New Haven, 28th April, 2010.
46. Stusser RJ. Talks on Insights on Cuba’s Human Healthcare, Animal and Vegetal Healthcare and Agriculture to Heads of Depts. of Health and Agriculture, in Columbia University's Earth Institute Morningside and Lamont-Doherty campus; New York, 27th, 29th April, 2010.
45. Stusser RJ. Tribute to Sterling Professor Alvan R. Feinstein, Father at a Distance of Clinical Research and Trials' Teachings in Havana Central MINSAP and Natl. Cancer Institute, 1975-79, in Yale University School of Medicine; New Haven, 28th April, 2010.
44. Stusser RJ. Lecture on Primary Care in Cuba: Universal-access with Government Political-based Resource-distribution, to Residents of Family Medicine, in Pennsylvania University Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 22nd April, 2010.
43. Stusser RJ. Lecture on Community-based Health Promotion and Social Welfare, to Global health Initiative’s students, in Pennsylvania University College of Arts & Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, 20th April, 2010.
42. Stusser RJ. Response to Provost Global Health Workshop Presentations on Health Impact of Political Conflicts in Guatemala, by epidemiologists in Ph.D., in Pennsylvania University Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19th, 20th April, 2010.
41. Stusser RJ. Clarifying Confusions # 1: Confusing the Living Standards and Levels between Cuba and Haiti, and Cuba and China in the 1950s. Havana, Jan 23, 2010. First short paper of a series posted in the web for friends and acquaintances. http://rational.fortunecity.com/confusions1.htm
40. Cuban anonymous professional. The integrality of the concepts behind the statistics. Some broad questions. [Comment to a NEJM perspective--No way to send an anonymous letter to the Editor. Posted on Jan. 8, 2010] http://rational.fortunecity.com/ushealthcare.htm
39. Stusser RJ. Demand of the Cuban People to the Socialist Military Junta for Imprisoning, Repressing, Plundering, and Re-impoverishing Cuba for a Half-Century. [Personal proposal first posted on Dec. 7, 2009] http://rational.fortunecity.com/demandproposal.htm
38. Stusser RJ. Neglected virgin areas in primary health care basic and applied research. BMJ 2009 (Nov 20). e-letter. http://www.bmj.com/content/339/bmj.b4810?page=1&tab=responses
37. Stusser RJ. Comments in US infant mortality plateau to the CDC/CCHIS/NCHS. Directly by email to first author of paper from 10/28 to 11/08/09. http://rational.fortunecity.com/usimplateau.htm
36. Stusser RJ. Reintegration could involve also improvement of the truncated clinical method. Ann Fam Med 2009 (Mar 23). e-letter. http://www.annfammed.org/content/7/2/100/reply#annalsfm_el_10704?sid=b42c5c0a-cdca-4e45-ace5-50ee6daf0c27
35. Spanish Pseudonym. Escaping from Hunger, Pauperism and Inequality: Growing Wealth for Everybody in Freedom or Re-impoverishing Everybody in Captivity? Havana, 28 Feb. 2009; re-edited 12 Jan. 2010. {rejected in Spanish by a Venezuelan magazine} http://rational.fortunecity.com/povertyinequality.htm
34. Cuban anonymous professional. Physical health at highest mental and social well being cost. CMAJ 2009 (10 Feb). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/cmajletter021009.htm
33. Cuban anonymous professional. The life and health of nation’s dynamics. BMJ 2008 (18 Dic). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/bmjletter121808.htm
32. Stusser RJ. Modernized societies guarantee health research impact. Lancet 2008 (11 Nov). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancetletter110508.htm
31. Cuban anonymous professional. The silenced socialist apartheid and confinement of physicians in Cuba. CMAJ 2008 (4 Sep). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/cmajletter090408.htm
30. Author’s name withheld. Health consequences of Cuba’s Special Period. CMAJ July 29 2008;179(3):257. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/179/3/257
29. Anonymous Cuban professional. Health systems need efficient living and working systems and high qualified physicians. Lancet 2008 (10 June). http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608607710/comments?action=view&totalComments=1 {The Lancet eliminated online e-letter’s system in 2008} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancetletter061208.htm {e-letter reposted}
28. Cuban anonymous professional. It can be learnt that socialist Cuba health heaven is a fallacy. CMAJ 2008 (23 May). http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/8/1032#19417 {CMAJ reorganized e-responses in 2011} http://rational.fortunecity.com/cmajheavenfallacy.htm {e-response reposted}
27. Anonymous. Please, take care with the Cuban political approach to global health! Lancet 2008 (May 2). http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360860608X/comments?action=view&totalComments=1 {The Lancet eliminated online e-letter’s system in 2008} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancet20080205.htm {e-letter reposted}
26. Anonymous. Does neo-liberalism is worse than Soviet socialism and terrorism globalization? Lancet 2008 (Apr 16). http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608605085/comments?action=view&totalComments=1 {The Lancet eliminated online e-letter’s system in 2008} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancet20081304.htm {e-letter reposted}
25. Cuban anonymous professional. Why are 20,000 Cuban physicians in Venezuela? BMJ 2008 (28 March). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/bmjletter032808.htm
24. Stusser RJ. Clinical discoveries, randomized controlled trials and surveys. Ann Fam Med 2008 (Feb 24). http://www.annfammed.org/search?fulltext=stusser&resourcetype=HWELTR&submit=yes
23. Stusser RJ, Dickey RA, Norris TE. Enhancing global rural health utilizing comprehensive and electronic primary health and life care and research. Personal Analysis Working Paper, Havana, Dec. 2007. http://rational.fortunecity.com/papertablerrh.htm
22. Anonymous Cuban professional. Poverty, emigration, government, development, and equity. Ann Fam Med 2007 (Dec 3). http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/eletters/5/6/486#7388 {Ann Fam Med eliminated e-response in 2011} http://rational.fortunecity.com/afmpovertyequity.htm {e-response reposted}
21. Stusser RJ. Evaluation of the U.N. data portal and proposal to improve it. Havana, Nov. 24, 2007. http://rational.fortunecity.com/undataportal.htm
20. Anonymous Cuban professional. Achieving health equity with more liberty, wealth, and ethics. BMJ 2007 (Oct 5). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/335/7621/628-b#177601 {BMJ eliminated e-response in 2010} http://rational.fortunecity.com/bmjequityethics.htm {e-response reposted}
19. Chico A, Estevez M, Stusser R, et al. [Effect of arthroscopic débridement in knee osteoarthritis.] Rev Cubana Med. 2007;46(1). http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-75232007000100007&lng=es&nrm=iso
18. Cuban anonymous professional. Strengthening research in China, should include political opening? Lancet 2007 (30 March). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancetletter033007.htm
17. Stusser RJ, Dickey R, Norris T, Krach L, Kriel R. Strengthening primary care research and its possible impact on world health]. Rejected since 2004 to 2007 by PAHO/PAJPH & WHO/HRPS Journals [Last Spanish draft] [Early English draft]
16. Stusser R, Dickey R, Headings V, Saliez E. Toward a more patho-physiological, preventive and dynamic health classification system. Preliminary notes for a research project. Havana, December 2006. http://pcvedadoclinic.fortunecity.com/healthclass.htm
15. Stusser RJ. Ideological imperialism worldwide setback to 1750 extreme poverty and authoritarianism blaming on USA. Personal Analysis Working Paper, Havana 2006. http://havanaptpclub.fortunecity.com/russia1.htm
14. Stusser RJ. Reflections on the Scientific Method in Medicine. In: UNESCO. Online Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). www.eolss.net Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences Chapter. Oxford: EOLSS Publisher; 2006. http://rational.fortunecity.com/reflections3.htm
13. Anonymous Cuban professional. e-Response. UN and WHO Leaders could Welcome a Bioeconomic-Psychosocial Paradigm. BMJ 2006 (Nov 15). http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/333/7576/1015#149265 {BMJ eliminated e-response in 2010} http://rational.fortunecity.com/bmjlevinechang.htm {e-response reposted}
12. Anon. Correspondence. Cuba's delayed transition needs. Lancet 2006 368(9544):1323. (Oct 14) http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606695445/fulltext
11. Anonymous letter. Cuba’s Delayed Transition Needs? Lancet 2006 (Sept 05). http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360669171X/comments?action=view&page=2&totalcomments=5 {The Lancet eliminated online e-letter’s system in 2008} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancet200611group2.htm {e-letter reposted} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lancet200611group1.htm
10. Stusser RJ, Dickey R, Norris T, Krach L, Kriel R. Strengthening primary care research and its possible impact on world health. Rejected since 2004 to 2006 by PAHO/PAJPH Journal. [Last Spanish draft] http://rational.fortunecity.com/globalhealth1.htm
9. Stusser RJ, Dickey R, Norris T, Krach L, Kriel R. Enhancing Global Health with Rural Primary Care Research on Socially Healthier Lifestyles through Electronic Research Collaboration. New Paradigm, Strategy, Method, Tech. {7th Rural Health WONCA 9/10/2006 PPT Seattle} Posted in Rural WONCA 2006 Pdf Seattle and after deleted}
8. Stusser RJ, Dickey R, Norris T, Krach L, Kriel R. Enhancing global health primary care research paradigms, methods, and technologies. & Enhancing global health with more primary care research on healthy lifestyle through electronic research collaboration. [Both submission-resubmission after comments rejected in 2005 by WHO/HRPS Journal] [English drafts Jun. 20 & Nov. 19, 2005] http://www.health-policy-systems.com/imedia/1017312893724309_article.pdf
7. Stusser R, Dickey R, Kriel R, Krach L, Norris T. Letter. Self-Sustained and Subsidized Public Health Policies. Science 2006 (30 March). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lettersscience.htm
6. Stusser R, Dickey R, Kriel R, Krach L, Norris T. Letter. The role of economics in the health of the poorest community. Science 2006 (27 March). {rejected e-letter} http://rational.fortunecity.com/lettersscience.htm
5. Stusser R, Albert M, Rodríguez A, Hechevarria S, González R, Cuadot A. [Vedado project: e-health in primary health care. Design and initial results]. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr. 2006;22(4). http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/mgi/vol22_4_06/mgi14406.htm
4. Stusser RJ, Rodríguez A. [The informatization of primary health care]. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr. 2006;22(4). http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/mgi/vol22_4_06/mgi12406.htm
3. Alvarez J, Dorante M, Stanley J, Stusser R, et al. [Non Invasive Electric Markers in Patients with Brugada Syndrome]. Arch Cardiol Mex 2006;76(1):52-58. http://new.medigraphic.com/cgi-bin/resumen.cgi?IDREVISTA=12&IDARTICULO=8410&IDPUBLICACION=930
2. Rivas E, Sixto S, Stusser R, Alvarez J, Barrera J, et al. Long-lasting physical exercise and ventricular remodeling after anterior wall myocardial infarction. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev & Rehabil 2006;13:S94.
http://journals.lww.com/ejcpr/Fulltext/2006/05001/Long_lasting_physical_exercise_and_ventricular.378.aspx (link lost in 2010)
1. Stusser RJ. Re-Transition in Cuba to a Free-Market Economy and Open-Society with Democratic Re-Privatization of the Financial and Physical Capitals. Personal Analysis Working Paper, Havana 2006. http://advancedgroup.fortunecity.com/reprivatization1.htm
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