Cuban health care : the ongoing revolution /
Don Fitz.
- 303 pages : lllustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Three Thousand Who Stayed -- Birth of the Cuban Polyclinic -- Cuba's First Military Doctors -- From Policlínicos Comunitarios to Family Medicine -- Cuban Doctors in Angola -- A Time of the Unexpected -- ELAM: The Latin American School of Medicine -- Thirteen Faces of ELAM -- Cuba: The New Global Medicine -- Challenges of the Twenty-First Century -- Cuba's Medical Mission -- Medicine in Cuba and the United States -- Postscript: How Che Guevara Taught Cuba to Confront Covid-19.
"Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this "third-world" country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his knowledge of Cuban history with decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to tell the story of how Cuba's health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century"--