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Latin American Social Medicine Association (Alames)was created in November of 1984 during the 3rd Latin American Social Medicine Seminar, in the city of Ouro Preto (MG), Brazil. The objective is to intensify, in an organized manner, the existing knowledge about relationship between health and society, based into scientific findings and the Social Medicine post graduated teaching experiences and, in the Brazilian case, Public Health – a typical tradition. The creation of Alames stimulated the consolidation of this area of investigation and action in Latin America, in projects coordinated by researchers and civil society association. Since then, Alames promoted eight International Congresses (1), all very important meeting places for the health area professionals, and is already organizing the next edition.
With its 22 years of life, Alames was constituted as a dynamic association bringing together people and institutions from all over the continent through different types of thematic and associative networks: academy, social movements, health professionals, researchers and, social and health policies analysts and creators.
Since its beginning, Alames has been assuming a clear political position, given that explicitly fights for: 1. a better equity in all sectors of life; 2. health as a right; 3. all States to comply with its obligations to citizenship.
In this way, Alames has been recovering and spreading all over the Latin American continent social medicine ideas developed in Europe during the revolutions of 1848, with Rudolf Virchow in Germany, Jules Guérin in France, William Farr in England, and Francesco Puccionotti in Italy, among others
(1) Latin American Congress of Social Medicine; 2nd Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in 1984; 3rd Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Medellín, Colombia, in 1988; 4th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1991; 5th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Brasil; 6th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Guadalajara. Jalisco, Mexico, in 1994; 7th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1997; 8th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Havana, Cuba, in 2000; 9th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, in Lima, Peru, in 2004; and the 10th Latin American Congress of Social Medicine, to be realized in Salvador Bahia, Brazil in July, 2007.
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