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020 _a9781583678602 (paperback)
020 _a583678603 (paperback)
020 _a9781583678619 (cloth)
020 _z9781583678626 (ebook)
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_beng
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041 _aeng
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050 1 4 _a107 RA 395
_bF548c 2020
082 0 0 _a362.1097291
100 1 _aFitz, Don E.,
_d1948-
_930020
245 1 0 _aCuban health care :
_bthe ongoing revolution /
_cDon Fitz.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bMonthly Review Press,
_c2020.
300 _a303 pages :
_blllustrations ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 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.
520 _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.
650 0 _aMedical care
_zCuba.
650 0 _aMedical Policy
_zCuba.
650 4 _aAtención médica
_zCuba
_95299
650 4 _aPolíticas médicas
_zCuba
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