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Cuba’s Healthcare System: A Political, Social, and Economic …

(4 days ago) WEBThe Cuban model is possible to replicate, the U.S. is one of a few developed countries that still haven’t invested in a universal healthcare system. This model could be essentially perfected in the United States. The Cuban health care model has its own problems. With the somewhat unstable political and economic system, the health care …

https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2019/02/09/cubas-healthcare-system-a-political-social-and-economic-revolution/

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Cuban Public Healthcare: A Model of Success for Developing Nations

(2 days ago) WEBAbstract. This article assesses Cuban healthcare, not just for Cubans but also for those who receive the care of Cuban health professionals working worldwide. The article offers three main points: first, Cuba is an anomaly, a poor nation that has very good public healthcare; second, Cuba’s reported infant mortality rates are probably too good

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0169796X19826731

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Universal coverage and strategy of primary health care. The Cuban

(3 days ago) WEBIn Cuba, more than 6% of GDP is dedicated to the well-being and health of the population. In the Cuban State budget for social expenses for the year 2019, more than 50% was dedicated to Health and Education . Cuba has one of the best ratio of health professionals per population in the world, with 118, 131, and 595 residents for one doctor

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934347/

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Cuba’s Strategy Toward Universal Health - Pol De Vos, 2019

(2 days ago) WEBThe steady aging of the population led to a new situation in terms of morbidity and mortality. 25. Today, 68% of Cuban mortality figures are linked to 4 important health problems: cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes. 26 The Cuban strategy toward influencing the risk factors and setting up prevention and

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020731418804406

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Summary and review of "Cuban Health Care: The …

(9 days ago) WEBThe United States is spending almost 20 times more per capita on health care than Cuba does. In 2018, Cuba was spending $431 and …

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-03/summary-and-review-of-cuban-health-care-the-ongoing-revolution/

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Health system in Cuba Pan American Journal of Public Health

(1 days ago) WEBThe National Health Policy in Cuba gives priority to health as a right, an essential component of human well-being and a strategic objective of development. The country devotes efforts and resources to the development and consolidation of the National Health System (SNS), characterized by the principles of universality, gratuity, …

https://journal.paho.org/en/special-issues/health-system-cuba

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Despite the blockade/ Cuba’s health care system is …

(5 days ago) WEBCuba has sent 53 brigades to other countries and has over 28,000 Cuban health care professionals residing in 58 nations. One speaker said that Washington wrongly accuses Cuba of producing …

https://iacenter.org/2023/01/19/despite-the-blockade-cubas-health-care-system-is-extraordinary/

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Cuba’s health system: hardly an example to follow

(6 days ago) WEBIf we agree with this, we can conclude that the Cuban health system is not performing as well as many believe: major progress in health status is limited to a few conditions, it lacks transparency and accountability, and its health policies have been implemented with little concern for certain basic rights. In sum, it is hardly a model to follow.

https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/33/6/760/5035053

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Overwhelmed by Coronavirus, Cuba’s Vaunted Health System Is …

(1 days ago) WEBCuba’s health care system, long a source of national pride, is in acute distress, particularly in distant provinces. After fending off the coronavirus last year, Cuba has been ravaged this

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/world/americas/cuba-coronavirus-healthcare-collapse.html

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Cuba’s primary health care revolution: 30 years on

(1 days ago) WEB43, Luna is Cuba’s national director of ambulatory care, and on her shoulders rests the country’s entire primary health care system, by many standards one of the world’s most effective and unique. Cuban health authorities give large credit for the country’s impressive . health indicators to the preventive, pri-

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/270181/PMC2647439.pdf?sequence=1

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Fifty Years of U.S. Embargo: Cuba's Health Outcomes …

(1 days ago) WEBOn the U.S. domestic front, given recent momentum in support of health-care reform, there may be opportunities to learn from Cuba valuable lessons about developing a truly universal health care …

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1189680

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Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution on JSTOR

(1 days ago) WEBCuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution on JSTOR. JSTOR is part of , a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11vccf8

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The Health System in Cuba: Origin, Doctrine and Results

(6 days ago) WEBSince the advent of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba has made health a national priority and built a public, universal and free system, placing the patient at the center of the medical project. Based on prevention and the concept of the “family doctor”, it has enabled the population to benefit from a level of health protection unique to a Third World …

https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/24110

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The Right to Live in Health and Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing

(2 days ago) WEBThe Right to Live in Health will engage both popular and academic audiences. It will resonate with undergraduate and graduate students and can be assigned as an entire book or be read as vignettes on a chapter-by-chapter basis. While Rodriguez’s narrative ends with the pathbreaking Constitution of 1940, Don Fitz’s Cuban Health …

https://nacla.org/cuban-health-care-review

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Cuba's Strategy Toward Universal Health - PubMed

(1 days ago) WEBAbstract. After 40 years of the Alma Ata Declaration on primary health care, the Pan American Journal of Public Health published an actualized overview of Cuban policies on health and well-being. It describes the longstanding and successful experience of this socialist country, developed in adverse and complex circumstances.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30293505/

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Cuba's economic reforms prompt debate about health care

(3 days ago) WEBAccording to PAHO, Cuba's GDP per head is $5045 and its public expenditure on health is 10·5% of GDP. Beat Schmid, programme co-ordinator in Havana for mediCuba Suisse, a Swiss non-profit that works to support Cuba's health system, told The Lancet: “A high level of investment in health care is very expensive and how they …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)60090-8/fulltext

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Healthcare in Cuba - Wikipedia

(8 days ago) WEBThe Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. All healthcare in Cuba is free to Cuban residents, although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs. There are no …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba

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Fidel Castro's Health Care Legacy Commonwealth Fund

(5 days ago) WEBThe nation’s commitments to health care are also widely apparent. Cuba spends about 10 percent of its GDP on health care. Services are free and funded by the state. Its delivery system prioritizes primary care and public health, and extends into virtually all the island’s communities. The system operates at three levels. At its base is a

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2016/fidel-castros-health-care-legacy

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Medical Servitude: The Other Side of Cuban Medical Diplomacy

(4 days ago) WEBThe picture is a popular one: Cuban doctors born, raised, and trained on the island, working side-by-side with doctors in countries around the world, providing healthcare to patients and training to medical students.It is this image that has earned the nation’s healthcare system much praise, both from foreign governments and …

https://hir.harvard.edu/medical-servitude-the-other-side-of-cuban-medical-diplomacy/

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Cuban President Fidel Castro's health-care system - The Lancet

(3 days ago) WEBDenying food and medicine to Cuba's civilian population in an effort to effect political change represents a sad and shameful episode in the history of the USA. Theodore MacDonald's A developmental analysis of Cuba's health care system since 1959 focuses on the impact of the US Trade Embargo on Cuba's health system under the leadership …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)72276-5/fulltext

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Pascrell, NJ Delegation Members, Send Letter to New Jersey

(7 days ago) WEBAs Congress works diligently to pass comprehensive health reform this year, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-08) released an open letter he led to New Jersey’s biopharmaceutical and medical technology industry for their commitment to quality health care and for their earnest contributions to reform efforts.

https://pascrell.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3534

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Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities

(5 days ago) WEBPART 147—HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETS; (Indian Health and Cuban Refugee Services). IHS is mentioned in the Department's title VI regulation as an example of such a program. “health care entity” is defined to include “a health …

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/06/2024-08711/nondiscrimination-in-health-programs-and-activities

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Healthcare Reform and How It Impacts You - Patch

(2 days ago) WEBHealthcare Reform Expert. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 19, at JuiceTank (www.juicetank.com), 220 Davidson Avenue, Somerset, NJ 08873, from 9:00 to 10:00AM.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/hillsborough/healthcare-reform-and-how-it-impacts-you

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NJBIA Statement on Passage of Health Insurance Reform Legislation

(Just Now) WEBMary Beaumont, NJBIA’s vice president of Health Affairs, issued the following statement regarding the passage of out-of-network reform bills A-2039 and S-485 today by the legislature. “NJBIA thanks the sponsors and the legislators in the Senate and Assembly who voted for this important legislation,” Beaumont said.

https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/njbia-statement-passage-health-insurance-reform-legislation/

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