TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fitz,Don E.
TI  - Cuban health care: the ongoing revolution 
SN  - 9781583678602 (paperback)
AV  - 107 RA 395 F548c 2020
U1  - 362.1097291 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Monthly Review Press
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Medical Policy
KW  - Atención médica
KW  - Políticas médicas
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -