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Emergence of the social medicine field in Latin America.

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Salvador Allende, a public health physician, argues "that the solution to health problems lay not simply in improved medical care but also in better sanitation, housing, nutrition, and working conditions" (Anderson et al, 2005). Che Guevara, an Argentinian physician, fights for an awareness of social medicine as part of his agenda in the Cuban revolution.