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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Healthcare in Cuba, Schools of medicine in Cuba, Water supply and sanitation in Cuba, Cuban medical internationalism, ELAM Cuba, MEDICC, Cuban Neurosciences Center, Acueducto de Albear, Carlos Finlay, ELAM 10 Rafael Ferro Macias, Hilda Molina, Jose Maria Agurrie T9, ELAM 5 Combate Ceja del Negro, Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez, Center of Molecular Immunology, Cuban National Center for Sex Education, Water privatization in Cuba, ACIMED, Sexologia y Sociedad, List of hospitals in Cuba, Revista Cubana de Cirugia. Excerpt: 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 Jose Ramon Balaguer. An overall worsening in terms of disease and infant mortality rates was observed in the 1960s. AIDS is only one-sixth as common on a per-capita basis as in the United States. 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. Cuba has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the region, with the average citizen living to 77.64 years old (just under the United States' 78.11 years). As was true of the other indigenous societies of the Americas, Cuban traditional medicine existed before the Spanish conquest. High-status traditional practitioners were called Bohiques. After colonization by the Spanish, Cuban medicine followed the Spanish tradition which was inherited from the Moors, who in turn drew upon classical Greek and Roman medical practices, which were inherited from the Ancient Egyptians, such as Imhotep. Chinese medicine has also been practiced in Cuba; its most...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230649993
  • Publisher: University-Press.Org
  • Publisher Imprint: University-Press.Org
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230649999
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Healthcare in Cuba, Schools of Medicine in Cuba, Water Supply and Sanitation in Cuba, Cuban Medical Internationalism,
  • Width: 189 mm


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