02127cam a2200397 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000170009702000300011402000260014402000260017002000260019604000280022204100080025004200080025804300120026605000270027808200160030510000270032124500610034826400450040930000410045433600260049533700280052133800270054950400510057650504910062752004970111865000240161565000260163965000320166565000320169721536205BJBSDDR20230805181418.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta200519s2020    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a  2020023269  a9781583678602 (paperback)  a583678603 (paperback)  a9781583678619 (cloth)  z9781583678626 (ebook)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  aeng  apcc  anwcu---14a107 RA 395bF548c 202000a362.10972911 aFitz, Don E., d1948- 10aCuban health care :bthe ongoing revolution /cDon Fitz. 1aNew York :bMonthly Review Press,c2020.  a303 pages :blllustrations ;c21 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe 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.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aMedical carezCuba. 0aMedical PolicyzCuba. 4aAtención médica zCuba  4aPolíticas médicaszCuba