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BACKGROUND: Contributions from Latin America to the global literature are scarce; until 2011, spine surgeons had published 320 articles in indexed journals. METHODS: This systematic review evaluates the scientific production of the Mexican Association of Spine Surgeons (Asociación Mexicana de Cirujanos de Columna-AMCICO) from its inception in 1998 to 2018 with the PRISMA statement using PubMed and Google Scholar search engines. The inclusion criteria were spine-related articles in indexed journals providing any (or no) level of evidence with ≥1 AMCICO member as an author. Journal metrics, article metrics, and author variables were analyzed using SPSS version 25. RESULTS: Of the 444 surgeons historically belonging to AMCICO, only 126 members contributed a total of 441 articles between 1998 and 2018. An average of 21.00 annual publications with an annual scientific output per capita of 0.05 was found. The most frequent evidence level was III (211 articles, 48%), the highest level was I (12 articles, 3%). The main study objective was clinical research, with 308 articles (70%), and the main study foci was trauma, with 103 articles (23%). An average impact factor of 0.16 and 0.92 was obtained for publications in Spanish and English, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Scientific publications by AMCICO members are scarce, with a per capita annual index of 0.05 from a total of 441 articles in indexed journals. Second, the impact factor of these journals is low, with a mean value of 0.53. Further strategies should be implemented to increase the number and track the record of Mexican contributions to the scientific literature.

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Argentina Biomedical Science has been historically strong. The development of Human and Veterinary Pharmacology in our country as a pivotal discipline has been acknowledged worldwide because of the quality of its contributions. Argentinean Society of Experimental Pharmacology (SAFE) is a non- profit association whose research fields include Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology. SAFE main goals are described as follow (a) To meet active researchers for studying concerns regarding Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (b) To launch an initiative for development of the discipline in mainly our country and other collaborative countries worldwide (c) To spread the pharmacological know-how obtained from different research teams (d) To strengthen relations between pharmacologists (e) To facilitate the presentation and discussion of scientific papers. This current article shows the SAFE's more important scientific contribution to pharmacology through its former research scientists to the present.

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O artigo trata de questões envolvendo a vida, a saúde e o adoecimento na sociedade atual. Tenta esclarecer as contribuições das ciências humanas e sociais na construção do campo da saúde - principalmente o da saúde coletiva - tanto em nível da pesquisa empírica como nos planos teórico e metodológico. Tenta mostrar que tanto categorias analíticas e conceitos como estratégias metodológicas das ciências sociais e humanas são úteis para o esclarecimento de relações entre condutas, estilos de vida, trabalho, valores culturais e o processo saúde/doença. Tenta também demonstrar que esse grupo de ciências tem suas próprias formas de expressão e estilo de difusão de conhecimento, que nem sempre são aceitas pelas ciências duras do campo da vida e da saúde, incluindo a medicina e a epidemiologia. Apesar de sua real contribuição para o avanço do campo, podem ser "acusadas" de falta de objetividade ou precisão. Os cientistas sociais da saúde coletiva têm que demonstrar, muitas vezes, que os resultados de suas pesquisas, e seu estilo de difusão, são tão científicos quanto os das disciplinas duras.

This article deals with questions concerning life, health, and getting ill in the current society. It tries to show the contributions of the social and human sciences to the construction of the health field -mainly public health- both in the level of empirical investigation and in the theoretical and methodological ones. It tries to point out that the analytical categories and concepts, as well as methodological strategies of the human sciences are helpful to explain relationships between conducts, lifestyles, work, cultural values and the health/disease process. It also attempts to demonstrate that this group of sciences has its own forms of expression and style of knowledge diffusion, which are not always accepted by the hard sciences in the life and health fields, including medicine and epidemiology. Despite their real contribution for the advance of the field, they can be "accused" of not being objective or exact. The social scientists of the public health field have often to prove that the results of their studies or their own style of expression are as "scientific" as those of the hard disciplines.

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