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The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. There are no private hospitals or clinics as all health services are government-run. The present Minister for Public Health is Roberto Morales Ojeda.
Like the rest of the Cuban economy, Cuban medical care suffered following the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991; the stepping up of the US embargo against Cuba at this time also had an effect.
Modern Western medicine has been practiced in Cuba by formally trained doctors since at least the beginning of the 19th century and the first surgical clinic was established in 1823. Cuba has had many world class doctors, including Carlos Finlay, whose mosquito-based theory of yellow fever transmission was given its final proof under the direction of Walter Reed, James Carroll, and Aristides Agramonte. During the period of U.S presence (1898–1902) yellow fever was essentially eliminated due to the efforts of Clara Maass and surgeon Jesse William Lazear.
Coordinates: 21°30′N 80°00′W / 21.500°N 80.000°W / 21.500; -80.000
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba ), is a country comprising the islands of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud and several archipelagos in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest city Havana is 365 km (227 mi) from Miami, Florida. Geographically, Cuba is considered part of North America. Culturally, it is considered part of Latin America.
Prior to Spanish colonization in the late 15th century, Cuba was inhabited by Amerindian tribes. It remained a colony of Spain until the Spanish–American War of 1898, which led to nominal independence as a de facto U.S. protectorate in 1902. As a fragile republic, Cuba attempted to strengthen its democratic system, but mounting political radicalization and social strife culminated in the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1952. Further unrest and instability led to Batista's ousting in January 1959 by the July 26 movement, which afterwards established a government under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Since 1965, the country has been governed by the Communist Party of Cuba.
Finally someone from the media (even under the threat of being expelled from Cuba) has the guts to get some real facts about health care in the communist island without relying on "government figures" or leftist Sicko propaganda. A must see!!
BTS producer, Cody Snell, speaks with students at the Latin American School of Medicine, an international medical school set up by the Cuban government that provides free tuition to low income individuals that want to become doctors. LIKE Abby Martin @ https://www.facebook.com/JournalistAbbyMartin FOLLOW CodySnell @ http://twitter.com/CodySnell
June 2006 Despite decades of crippling sanctions, Cuba has achieved the unthinkable. Its health care system rivals most Western countries and infant mortality rates are lower than those in America. "There is no place in the world with such a system as we have in Cuba", raves one happy patient. Prevented from importing drugs by sanctions, Cuba was forced to make is own medicines. It now sells this technology to other countries, enabling revenues from the health sector to rival those generated by tourism. But it's the training for free of international medical students that's really marking Cuba's stamp on the region. "In ten years, we will have trained between 100,000 -- 150,000 students", boasts Dr Estevez. America claims gestures like this are a means of Cuba buying UN votes. But Cub...
Big problems need big solutions, sparked by big ideas, imagination and audacity. In this talk, journalist Gail Reed profiles one big solution worth noting: Havana’s Latin American Medical School, which trains global physicians to serve the local communities that need them most. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED...
Ray Suarez continues his series from Havana with a report on the Cuban health care system's emphasis on preventive medicine.
An English translation of a segment of Mano Limpia which aired in 2007 showing the reality of the state of Cuban healthcare.
Healthcare coverage starts at birth for Cubans. So how does the country pay for it? And what exactly is covered? CCTV America's Elaine Reyes spoke to Robert Huish, assistant professor at Dalhousie University.
Medical Tourism in Cuba. People who are looking for affordable yet high quality health care treatments should have medical tourism in Cuba option open. Many patients from United States are coming to Cuba as of high cost of health care in the U.S. and having health tourism in Cuba and great vacation afterwards as they save their money saved from high costs of health care treatments at their home countries. http://www.placidway.com/country/95/Cuba-Medical-Tourism Contact us directly - It's free! http://www.placidway.com/contact/contact-us.php Email: info@placidway.com Phone: +1.303.500.3821 Website: http://www.placidway.com Medical Tourism Videos: http://www.medicaltourism.video Transcript: Placidway, global medical tourism. Welcome to Cuba. Cuba is internationally renowned for its exc...
This is a short clip of my presentation for my Spring 2016 course, The Cuban Healthcare Paradox. I would have liked to record the entire presentation, but my camera ran out of space. I hope you enjoy this clip and thank you for watching. -Amira Kalala
Cuba is famous for its excellent health care system, which is free of charge for its citizens. How can a developing country like Cuba reach such a high level of free health care? We meet doctor Gisela, and go on tour with her trough the neighborhood she attends. But what if you live in a developing country where access to health care is not that obvious? In the Philippines we meet Emma. She is not a doctor, but a Community Health Worker. We witness how she, together with her colleagues, helps her neighbors and organizes them for the right to health. A https://www.docwerkers.be production for https://www.TWHA.be
Castro defends Cuba's record on human rights Castro answers a question about Cuba’s compliance with international standards of human rights. “There are 61 international instruments to recognize how many countries in the world comply with all the human rights and civil rights,” he sys. “What country complies with them all? Do you know? I know. None. Not a single country. Some countries comply with some rights, others apply others.” He says that Cuba complies with 40, and that he doesn’t believe human rights issues should be “politicized”. “Do you think that there’s a more central right than to healthcare? So that millions of children don’t die for the lack of a vaccine or treatment?” he asks. “Do you agree with the right to free education, for all those born everywhere in the world? I...
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This documentary will be comparing the health care systems of France and Cuba. The WHO has ranked France’s healthcare system the best in the entire world. We will explore the political, historical and environmental factors that make it so reputable. It will discuss allocation of resources, funding, workforce, curative and preventative measures, and the French Paradox. Cuba has a health care system that is ranked 39th on the list from the WHO. For a developing country, that is relatively high, only two spaces below the USA. Some of the reasons why their system is so good is because of the preventative measures. We do not own any of the songs used in this film or rights to a few of the images used.
Cuba saw a record number of visitors this year. The island nation has long capitalized on its sun, sea and salsa, but now it's marketing a new attraction: health tourism.The majority of patients come from Venezuela right now, and it's paid for by the government in Caracas. But Cuba is looking to diversify. Cuba is now looking to the United States. With the high cost of health care there, the U.S. is seen as a potential market. Especially now that the two countries have restored diplomatic relations. CCTV Americas's Michael Voss reports.
Cuba has Ramrajya in terms of health. Ramrajya is a show with the description of various places that has some systems better than India which makes that place a better place to live. Cuba has ramrajya in terms of health. They maintain their people's health a lot. For latest breaking news, other top stories log on to: http://www.abplive.in & http://www.youtube.com/abpnewsTV
Dr. Rafi reviews "The Good. the Bad, and the Ugly," of the Cuban Health Care System. Four perspectives on how you can get "More for Bang for the Peso."
Revolutionary Doctors: How Cuba and Venezuela are Changing the World's Conception of Healthcare UIC School of Public Health Monday, November 12, 2012 Introduction by Alison Goldstein, candidate for Master of Public Health, University of Illinois-Chicago. Opening remarks by Peter Orris, MD, MPH, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at UIC and leader of the American Public Health Association (APHA) delegation to Cuba Presented by Radical Public Health (RPH), Global Health Student Interest Group (GHSIG), Emergency USA, Public Health Student Association (PHSA) and the Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela's innovative and inspiring program of community health care, designed to serve—and largely ...
Dr. Rafi Boritzer outlines healthcare in other countries, namely Cuba.
A timely film about the competing values that mark the battle for global health… Beautifully filmed in Cuba, South Africa, The Gambia, Honduras and Venezuela, ¡SALUD! suggests bold new approaches to developing the human resources critical to making health care a global birthright. The film examines the remarkable case of Cuba, a poor country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems," and explores Cuba's extensive global health initiatives. ¡SALUD! accompanies some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals now staffing public health systems in over 60 countries. Their stories, and those of young medical students-now numbering 30,000-from the Americas, Africa and Asia studying in Cuba, challenge us to rethink the potential of international health cooperation.
A Clean Bill of Health: With thousands of newly trained doctors supporting medical care in the region, Cuba's successful healthcare system flies in the face of US sanctions. For similar stories, see: The US Farming Family Pioneering Trade With Cuba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-CYk8IBoiY Life in Castro's Cuba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDGor2527A The Music Driving Cuba's Capitalist Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckIbfJQBZXA Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=56365 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram:...