Cuban health care : utopian dreams, fragile future / Mary Helen Spooner and Steven Ullmann.

By:

Spooner, Mary Helen [author.]

Contributor(s):

Ullman, Steven, 1953- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 141 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780739176047
0739176048
9780739176047

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cuban health care.DDC classification:

362.1097291 23

LOC classification:

RA395.C9

NLM classification:

W 84 DC9

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Contents:

Medical histories -- Shortages and infrastructure -- Women and children -- Ageing and youth : a Cuban dilemma -- Medical education -- Pharmaceuticals -- Medical diplomacy and services abroad -- Conclusions : facing the future -- Appendix 1. Open letter from the General Surgery Department of the Calixto Garcia Hospital to the first secretary of the Cuban Communist party and president of the Councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro Ruz -- Appendix 2. A Cuban medical timeline.

Summary: Cuba's health care system has been the subject of much attention and debate while revealing jarring contrasts: hospitals lack supplies while Cuba's overseas medical missions generate good will towards the Castro government. As officials make cutbacks amid reported outbreaks of infectious diseases, what does the future hold for Cuban health care?

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Cuba's health care system has been the subject of much attention and debate while revealing jarring contrasts: hospitals lack supplies while Cuba's overseas medical missions generate good will towards the Castro government. As officials make cutbacks amid reported outbreaks of infectious diseases, what does the future hold for Cuban health care?

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