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The Sad State of Health Care in Cuba for 2024 - Havana Times

(9 days ago) WEBThe Cuban government is trying to alleviate the current shortage of medical supplies through donations from abroad. On January 28, 2024, the “William Soler” Pediatric Hospital and the Institute of Gastroenterology received donations from the organizations Puentes de Amor and Code Pink. During 2023, the healthcare system in Santiago de …

https://havanatimes.org/features/the-sad-state-of-health-care-in-cuba-for-2024/

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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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Healthcare Crisis: Cuba Loses 12,000 doctors in One Year

(8 days ago) WEBSuch is the case of more than 50% of the group of Holguin doctors who protested in August 2021 because of the lack of medicines and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in response to the Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, who accused doctors of poor patient care at times of the worst health crisis to date.

https://havanatimes.org/features/healthcare-crisis-cuba-loses-12000-doctors-in-one-year/

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Medicine Shortages, a Challenge to Public Health in Cuba

(5 days ago) WEBThe persistent economic crisis that has already lasted three decades has damaged the infrastructure and quality of services at hospitals and clinics that form part of Cuba’s universal and free public health …

https://havanatimes.org/cuba/medicine-shortages-a-challenge-to-public-health-in-cuba/

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Cuba’s health system buckles under strain of …

(5 days ago) WEBCuba’s health system buckles under strain of overwhelming Covid surge. A lack of medical supplies is crippling the Covid response, amid an economic crisis sparked by the pandemic and US

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/22/cuba-coronavirus-vaccines-health-system

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‘Giving us oxygen’: Italy turns to Cuba to help revive ailing health

(5 days ago) WEBAlmost 500 Cuban health workers deployed across Calabria amid severe shortage of doctors. Angela Giuffrida in Polistena. Tue 16 Jan 2024 00.00 EST. Last modified on Tue 16 Jan 2024 21.31 EST. I n

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/italy-calabria-cuban-doctors-public-health-system

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Cuba’s acclaimed health system reels as the virus surges.

(Just Now) WEBAug. 19, 2021. Cuba’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

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/world/americas/cubas-acclaimed-health-system-reels-as-the-virus-surges.html

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‘The great medical powerhouse has no doctors’: Parents of sick …

(Just Now) WEBFor years, the country sold itself to the world as a medical powerhouse, but Cuba has long been in a health crisis that has only worsened in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, just as other sectors of the economy and life in general have deteriorated. Even as the sick, the hospitalized and occasional patients complained …

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-10-23/the-great-medical-powerhouse-has-no-doctors-parents-of-sick-children-denounce-the-health-crisis-in-cuba.html

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Behind Cuba's successful pandemic response - The Lancet

(3 days ago) WEBCuba's Henry Reeve Brigade was established in 2005. It has despatched cadres of health-care professionals all over the world to combat disasters and epidemics. Cuban doctors were on the scene in Haiti during the cholera outbreak that followed the 2010 earthquake; they arrived in west Africa during the 2013–16 Ebola crisis.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00159-6/fulltext

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

(2 days ago) WEBThe Cuban health care system and factors currently undermining it. J Community Health. 1995; 20(4):321–334. Crossref. PubMed. ISI. Economic crisis and access to care: Cuba’s Health Care system since the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Int J Health Serv. 2005; 35(4):797–816. Crossref. PubMed. ISI. Google Scholar. 14. Alma …

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

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Covid-19 has damaged the reputation of Cuban health care

(8 days ago) WEBCuba has qualified doctors and nurses to spare. When covid-19 first struck, Cuba sent some of its medics to countries struggling with their initial wave of patients. An impressive 89% of Cuba’s

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/08/03/covid-19-has-damaged-the-reputation-of-cuban-health-care

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

(5 days ago) WEBCuba’s medical system prioritizes nurses’ rights as workers and guarantees free health care for all Cubans. Cuba 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 bioweapons, but that the U.S. fails to

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

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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, accessibility, …

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

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The Cuban health system in crisis - France 24

(Just Now) WEBThe Cuban health system in crisis. Issued on: 08/11/2023 - 15:26 Modified: 08/11/2023 Despite chronic economic difficulties, Cuba has always excelled in the health sector, exporting thousands

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20231108-en-wb-cuba-heathcare-crisis-episode-3

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Summary and review of "Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing …

(9 days ago) WEBA summary and review of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz, Monthly Review Press, 2020. This book gives an excellent account of the nature, history and achievements of the Cuban health system. It is fairly lengthy, quite detailed, heavily documented, and easy to read. It has implications and lessons that go well …

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-03/summary-and-review-of-cuban-health-care-the-ongoing-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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Is the Cuban healthcare system really as great as people claim?

(6 days ago) WEBThough a noble sentiment, this is a main issue with the Cuban model. The government spends roughly US$300-$400 (£240-£320) per person each year on healthcare, pays doctors $64 (£52) per month

https://theconversation.com/is-the-cuban-healthcare-system-really-as-great-as-people-claim-69526

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Economic Crisis and Access to Care: Cuba's Health Care System …

(Just Now) WEBThe combined effects of the well-functioning universal and equitable health care system in place before the crisis, the government's steadfast support for the system, and the network of social solidarity based on grassroots organizations mitigated the corrosive effects of monetary and market relations in the context of severe scarcities and an

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2190/C1QG-6Y0X-CJJA-863H

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Healthcare — Cuba Platform

(5 days ago) WEBThe Cuban healthcare system employs a three-tiered structure for organizing primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Municipal authorities oversee a community-based primary care level consisting of consultorios (first-level clinics for consultation with doctors and nurses) and regional polyclinics. This level is famously characterized by a general family …

https://cubaplatform.org/healthcare

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Cuba’s Profound Crisis Requires a More Comprehensive U.S.

(4 days ago) WEBIn May 2022, the Biden administration announced it would restore certain areas of engagement with Cuba and provide increased support for Cubans. This included measures such as reauthorizing commercial flights to provinces outside Havana, restarting the Cuban Family Reunification Parole (CFRP) Program, expanding support for …

https://www.wola.org/2023/06/statement-cuba-crisis-comprehensive-response/

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Long lines form and frustration grows as Cuba runs short of cash

(6 days ago) WEBExperts say there are several reasons behind the shortage, all somehow related to Cuba’s deep economic crisis, one of the worst in decades. Omar Everleny Pérez, a Cuban economist and university professor, says the main culprits are the government’s growing fiscal deficit, the nonexistence of banknotes with a denomination greater than …

https://apnews.com/article/cuba-economy-cash-shortage-1bb0c49c286495c66a94e32feffc042d

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More Local Protests Held In Support Of People Of Cuba

(5 days ago) WEBDozens more did so in our area, waving Cuban flags, walking the streets, and chanting their support, CBS2's Ali Bauman reported. READ MORE : New Jersey Cuban-Americans Join International Call For

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/cuba-protests-north-bergen-new-jersey/

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Hundreds rally in N.J. to support protesters in Cuba - nj.com

(9 days ago) WEBHundreds of protesters marched down Bergenline Avenue for blocks. Some waved Cuban flags, others waved American flags. People sing to the Cuban and American national anthems during the rally. A

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2021/07/hundreds-rally-in-nj-to-support-protesters-in-cuba.html

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Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre: Everything you want …

(9 days ago) WEBWhat to know about Steward Health Care amid bankruptcy, financial crisis. de la Torre lives in a Dallas "mansion" and shares a neighborhood with former President George W. Bush and Mark Cuban,

https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/healthcare/2024/05/08/ralph-de-la-torre-ceo-doctor-steward-health-care-hospitals-massachusetts/73596254007/

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Reading List - Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential

(Just Now) WEBThe Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962 : A Reading List (2002) This reading list is composed of titles cataloged in the Kennedy Library's printed materials collections. The Kennedy Library applies special local modifications to standard Library of Congress Subject Headings. This is so that researchers who use our archival holdings may focus

https://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/reading.html

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