Author: Cuba. Ministerio de Salud Pública
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Languages : es
Pages : 47

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Category : Community health services
Languages : es
Pages : 43

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Languages : en
Pages : 43

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Author: Julie M. Feinsilver
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913957
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperate economic conditions. Moreover, Cuba has sent disaster relief, donations of medical supplies and technology, and cadres of volunteer doctors throughout the world, emerging, in Castro's phrase, as a "world medical power." In her significant and timely study, Julie Feinsilver explores the Cuban medical phenomenon, examining how a governmental obsession with health has reaped medical and political benefits at home and abroad. As a result of Cuba's forward strides in health care, infant mortality rates are low even by First World standards. Cuba has successfully dealt with the AIDS epidemic in a manner that has aroused controversy and that some claim has infringed on individual liberties—issues that Feinsilver succinctly evaluates. Feinsilver's research and travel in Cuba over many years give her a unique perspective on the challenges Cuba faces in this time of unprecedented economic and political uncertainty. Her book is a must-read for everyone concerned with health policy, international relations, and Third World societies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education

Author: P. Sean Brotherton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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An ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.

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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: John Ide Ingle
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Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Jean Stubbs
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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A select, annotated bibliography providing a multidisciplinary guide to Cuba, a country two-thirds the size of Great Britain with some eleven million inhabitants. This volume contains an especially diverse selection of topic headings. There are the usual listings on topics including geography, flora and fauna, prehistory and history, religion, social conditions, foreign relations, economy, finance, industry, literature, sports, media, and the like. In addition, there are sections on tourism and travel guides, travellers' accounts (by era), revolution, slavery and race, and women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : es
Pages : 990

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Author: Elsa Gómez Gómez
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ISBN: 9789275115411
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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