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ISBN: 1933478721
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1933478721
Community Health Care in Cuba
This multidisciplinary look at Cuban community health care pulls the past and present together in an exciting look at the origins, successes, and failures of the Cuban system.
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In this book, editors Susan E. Mason, David L. Strug, and Joan Beder bring together essays by respected professionals in both Cuba and the United States to examine the closely integrated system of nurses, doctors, social workers, and other health care specialists that make up the revolutionary home-based care network that serves millions of Cubans.
Special essays deal with the treatment of Jewish, Chinese, and Afro-Cuban minorities, and with Cuba's achievements in promoting international health. At a time when health care is at the forefront of many debates, this
Community Health Care in Cuba
by Susan E. Mason - Lyceum Books, Inc. (2010) - Paperback - ISBN 1933478721 9781933478722
Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuelas innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serveand largely carried out bythe poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuelas Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisors and
Through qualitative interviews and participant observation with Cuban primary care neighborhood doctors and nurses, this book brings the reader into everyday life in Havana. The first book to examine Cuba's health care system and the health of the Cuban population since the Special Period, it explains how Cuba manages to improve its health indices year after year--an extraordinary achievement, considering the economic inequalities that exist in Cuba today.
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In this book, editors Susan E. Mason, David L. Strug, and Joan Beder bring together essays by respected professionals in both Cuba and the United States to examine the closely integrated system of nurses, doctors, social workers, and other health care specialists that make up the revolutionary home-based care network that serves millions of Cubans.
Special essays deal with the treatment of Jewish, Chinese, and Afro-Cuban minorities, and with Cuba's achievements in promoting international health
n this book, editors Susan E. Mason, David L. Strug, and Joan Beder bring together essays by respected professionals in both Cuba and the United States to examine the closely integrated system of nurses, doctors, social workers, and other health care specialists that make up the revolutionary home-based care network that serves millions of Cubans.
Special essays deal with the treatment of Jewish, Chinese, and Afro-Cuban minorities, and with Cuba's achievements in promoting international health. At a time when health care is at the forefront of many debates, this
