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Demystifying the Cuban Health System: An Insider’s View

WEBNotes1. The World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948 defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease …

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The Impact of the World Economic Crisis on Cuba’s Healthcare …

WEBCuba’s vaunted healthcare sector is envied for the healthcare outcomes it achieves that equal or in some instances exceed those of developed countries, while spending a …

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CUBAN AND U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS 1900–2016: …

WEBIn Cuba 2000–2009/U.S. 2010–2017, the author discussed Cuba and US life and health systems and policies during 74 lectures with 1,000 US doctors, nurses, scientists, public …

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Health Care in Cuba and in the United States of America: An …

WEB“No hay dinero que pague una buena atención médica” or “La medicina es un sacerdocio.” These colloquial phrases used in Cuba many years ago refer to medical services as an …

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The Impact of the U.S. Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba

WEBTo appreciate the current state of U.S.-Cuba relations it must be seen in the context of more than two hundred years of history during which the United States has been consistently …

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The Effects of the U.S. Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba: A

WEBThe U.S. embargo on food and medicine exports to Cuba are, in my opinion, critical to the Castro government’s ability to manipulate internal and international public opinion by …

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DEMYSTIFYING THE CUBAN HEALTH SYSTEM: AN INSIDER’S …

WEBDemystifying the Cuban Health System 223 impartially assessing Cuba’s health realities during the colony, republic and revolution.4 Cuban health officials have traveled to U.S. …

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THE EFFECTS OF THE U.S. EMBARGO ON HEALTH AND …

WEBEffects of the U.S. Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba 221 the behavior, availability, and qualifications of health care professionals, deplorable conditions in health

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Cuban And U.S. Health Care Systems 1900 2016: Similarities, …

WEBAuthor’s note In 1999, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a measure to assess the ability of a National Health System (NHS) to translate expenditures into …

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CUBA-UNITED STATES ACADEMIC EXCHANGES: PERSONAL …

WEBMETHOD. The author made an analysis of his experiences on Cuba-U.S. exchanges as a student and as a physician, working in the biomedical, clinical, and health sci-ences in …

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CUBA’S DEMOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION SINCE THE …

WEBPopulation Growth, Annual Rates of Population Change, and Natural Increase Rates. As shown in Table 1, while between 1960 and 2020, the global population is projected to increase from 3 to 7.8 billion people, or by 256%, Cuba’s will in-crease by a more modest 159%, from 7.1 to 11.3 million.

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An Evaluation of Four Decades of Cuban Healthcare

WEBThis paper is divided into four parts. The first is an overview of the evolution of the healthcare system and its organizational structure. The second describes the …

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CUBA’S LONG TRADITION OF HEALTH CARE POLICIES: …

WEBThe author acknowledges the encouragement of Kent Bream and 6 groups of students at the University of Pennsylvania, who com-mented on his lectures in 2010–2013; the …

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AN EVALUATION OF FOUR DECADES OF CUBAN HEALTHCARE

WEBThe National Health System is completely financed by state resources. It is also highly decentralized: 92.4% of expenditures for public health are financed from municipal …

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ACCESS TO HUMAN HEALTH, FREEDOMS AND OTHER …

WEBThe author lived firsthand the changing facts of ac-cess to health, education, freedoms and other living standards as a citizen, patient, and physician in Cuba in 1945–2010. He …

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Cuba-United States Academic Exchanges: Personal Experiences in …

WEBNotes[ref]I thank my wife María Espinosa for her support in the revision of the paper; María Werlau, Head the Cuba Archives, and Carlos A. Montaner’s panel “The …

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CUBAN LIVING STANDARDS, BROADLY DEFINED, BEFORE …

WEBJohn Devereux1. If the Cuban revolution is a defining event in twenti-eth century Latin American history, then the sixtieth anniversary in 2019 of the revolution provides us with …

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THE DESCENT OF CUBA

WEBCuba in Transition • ASCE 2019 264 Cuban GDP per capita holds up for the first two years of the revolution.8 It drops in 1961 with the U.S. trade embargo, collectivization, the exodus of

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HAVANA’S WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS: CHANGES …

WEBThe Republic of Cuba is an archipelago nation in the Caribbean made up of the island of Cuba, the Island of Youth, and 1,600 smaller islands and keys (World Health …

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