Primary Health Care in Cuba

The Other Revolution

By (author) Linda M. Whiteford, Laurence G. Branch

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Publication date:

05 December 2007

Length of book:

150 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742566361

As health care concerns grow in the U.S., medical anthropologist Linda M. Whiteford and social psychologist Larry G. Branch present their findings on a health care anomaly, from an unlikely source. Primary Health Care in Cuba examines the highly successful model of primary health care in Cuba following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. This model, developed during a time of dramatic social and political change, created a preventive care system to better provide equity access to health care. Cuba's recognition as a paragon of health care has earned praise from the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the Pan American Health Organization. In this book, Whiteford and Branch explore the successes of Cuba's preventive primary health care system and its contribution to global health.

Chapter 1 The Cuban Health Care Revolution
Chapter 2 An Overview of the Cuban Primary Health Care Model Between 1959 - 2000
Chapter 3 Alma Ata and the Concept of 'Primary Health Care'
Chapter 4 The Cuban Primary Health Care Model for Child/Maternal Care
Chapter 5 The Cuban Experience with Controlling Infectious and Communicable Diseases Through Primary Health Care
Chapter 6 Chronic Diseases in Cuba
Chapter 7 Recasting the 'Public' in Public Health: Assessing the Cuban Experience
Chapter 8 Lessons Learned from Cuba's Primary Health Care Model

This is a groundbreaking work. Primary Health Care In Cuba makes a significant contribution to medical anthropology and public health by documenting the history, political economy, and ideology that has produced the Cuban primary health care system. The authors explore the critical tensions between the rights of individuals and the role of the state that have shaped the remarkable successes in Cuban health care over the past fifty years. They also raise challenging questions about the relationship between the reduction of health disparities and advances in public health.