Healing the Masses

Healing the Masses
Author: Julie M. Feinsilver
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0520913957

How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education, and advanced technology, even amid desperate economic conditions. Moreover, Cuba has sent disaster relief, donations of medical supplies and technology, and cadres of volunteer doctors throughout the world, emerging, in Castro's phrase, as a "world medical power." In her significant and timely study, Julie Feinsilver explores the Cuban medical phenomenon, examining how a governmental obsession with health has reaped medical and political benefits at home and abroad. As a result of Cuba's forward strides in health care, infant mortality rates are low even by First World standards. Cuba has successfully dealt with the AIDS epidemic in a manner that has aroused controversy and that some claim has infringed on individual liberties—issues that Feinsilver succinctly evaluates. Feinsilver's research and travel in Cuba over many years give her a unique perspective on the challenges Cuba faces in this time of unprecedented economic and political uncertainty. Her book is a must-read for everyone concerned with health policy, international relations, and Third World societies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. How has Cuba, a small, developing country, achieved its stunning medical breakthroughs? Hampered by scarce resources and a long-standing U.S. embargo, Cuba nevertheless has managed to provide universal access to health care, comprehensive health education

Author:
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
Total Pages: 110
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0473874970

Manual of Primary Health Care

Manual of Primary Health Care
Author: Peter M. M. Pritchard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1981
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780192613554

Health Care In Peru

Health Care In Peru
Author: Dieter K. Zschock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429692943

This book examines an important aspect of health care in Peru in considerable depth, based on intensive analysis of data from Peruvian sources. It offers a number of recommendations that can help bring the allocation of health sector resources into line with the country's health care policy. .

Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC

Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC
Author: Julio Arboleda-Flórez
Publisher: Pan American Health Org
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1999
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9789275073766

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may not imply changes in the immigration laws of its signatories, but it will make it easier for people to move freely among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. One of the concerns arising from NAFTA involves meeting the health care needs of people who move from one member country to another. The publication analyzes the legal implications of the access to health care by individuals from NAFTA countries who are temporarily working or residing in another member country. The book compares the health systems of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, focusing on their principles and objectives, legal framework, institutional structure, operational modalities, and outcomes. Detailing the similarities and differences among the systems of these three countries, this publication attempts to anticipate the treaty's potential benefit or detriment to access to health care services and examines the expectations and concerns that free trade generates in this respect.

Investment in Health

Investment in Health
Author:
Publisher: Pan American Health Org
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2001
Genre: Caribbean Area
ISBN: 9275115826

This publication considers the final reports of three research projects that explored how investing in health can benefit economic growth, household productivity, and poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. It contains case studies of health systems and policies in a number of countries including Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru; as well as a review of experiences from other regions in the world regarding health inequalities and poverty alleviation.

Index Medicus

Index Medicus
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1990
Release: 2003
Genre: Medicine
ISBN:

Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.