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Developmental Analysis of Cuba’s Health Care System Since 1959
| Author: | MacDonald, Théodore | |
| Year: | 1999 | |
| Pages: | 402 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-8049-8 978-0-7734-8049-0 | |
| Price: | $259.95 | |
This book deals with the development of Cuba's elaborate health care system and critically analyses various aspects of it. It is a compendium of clinical and social information in that regard and, in particular, focuses on the impact of the US Trade Embargo and the Helms Burton Act on the continued viability of the enterprise. In this account, the medical reader will find a huge amount of relevant and difficult to obtain epidemiological and clinical data. The study discusses current areas of Cuban research as well as the historical context. The book is also readily accessible to the non-medical reader, so that social scientists, educationists and others can fruitfully use it.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents:
Preface, Foreword
1.Cuba – A Medical Paradox
2.The Political/Philosophical Context
3.From Social Chaos to Health for all
4.Poor and Rich in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba
5.The Educational, Social and Political Context
6.Strategies Employed in Making Reforms
7.The Role of the Cuban Federation of Women
8.Developments in Public Health from 1976-1981
9.The Cuban Health Scene 1981 to the Present
10.How Cuba Deals with HIV+ / AIDS
11.The Family Doctor Programme
12.High Technology in Cuban Medicine
13.A Medical Volunteer's Account
14.Cuban Medicine in the Teeth of the Blockade
15.Health Care for the Nation's People
16.The Medical View of Cuba from America
Appendix: Demographic Data 1990; Bibliography, Index
Preface, Foreword
1.Cuba – A Medical Paradox
2.The Political/Philosophical Context
3.From Social Chaos to Health for all
4.Poor and Rich in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba
5.The Educational, Social and Political Context
6.Strategies Employed in Making Reforms
7.The Role of the Cuban Federation of Women
8.Developments in Public Health from 1976-1981
9.The Cuban Health Scene 1981 to the Present
10.How Cuba Deals with HIV+ / AIDS
11.The Family Doctor Programme
12.High Technology in Cuban Medicine
13.A Medical Volunteer's Account
14.Cuban Medicine in the Teeth of the Blockade
15.Health Care for the Nation's People
16.The Medical View of Cuba from America
Appendix: Demographic Data 1990; Bibliography, Index