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Cuban health care : the ongoing revolution / Don Fitz.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2020Description: 303 pages : lllustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781583678602 (paperback)
  • 583678603 (paperback)
  • 9781583678619 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1097291
LOC classification:
  • 107 RA 395 F548c 2020
Contents:
The Three Thousand Who Stayed -- Birth of the Cuban Polyclinic -- Cuba's First Military Doctors -- From Policlínicos Comunitarios to Family Medicine -- Cuban Doctors in Angola -- A Time of the Unexpected -- ELAM: The Latin American School of Medicine -- Thirteen Faces of ELAM -- Cuba: The New Global Medicine -- Challenges of the Twenty-First Century -- Cuba's Medical Mission -- Medicine in Cuba and the United States -- Postscript: How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront Covid-19.
Summary: "Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this "third-world" country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his knowledge of Cuban history with decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to tell the story of how Cuba's health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 107 RA 395 F548c 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000163038

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Three Thousand Who Stayed -- Birth of the Cuban Polyclinic -- Cuba's First Military Doctors -- From Policlínicos Comunitarios to Family Medicine -- Cuban Doctors in Angola -- A Time of the Unexpected -- ELAM: The Latin American School of Medicine -- Thirteen Faces of ELAM -- Cuba: The New Global Medicine -- Challenges of the Twenty-First Century -- Cuba's Medical Mission -- Medicine in Cuba and the United States -- Postscript: How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront Covid-19.

"Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this "third-world" country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his knowledge of Cuban history with decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to tell the story of how Cuba's health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century"-- Provided by publisher.

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