Cuban health care the ongoing revolution /

"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 decad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitz, Don E., 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2020]
Physical Description:
303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
Medical care -- Cuba.
Medical policy -- Cuba.
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.

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