Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals (Studies of the Americas)

while Public Health Is Important For Revolutionary Cuba, Providing Medical Services To The Developing World Is Also A Priority: 38,000 Medical Staff Are Engaged Abroad; The Largest Medical School In The World (elam) Has An Enrollment Of Over 8,000 Students From The Third World; And Since 2004 Over 1.3 Million In Latin America And The Caribbean Have Had Their Eyesight Restored. How Has This Small Nation Of 11.3 Million People Managed To Save More Lives In The Developing World Than All Of The G-8 Countries Together? And What Are Its Motives? This Book, The Result Of Four Years Of Research In Cuba, Provides An Updated Analysis Of This Extraordinary Record. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 7 List of Tables......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 1 Introduction: Cuba as a World Medical Power......Page 14 2 The Cuban Health Care System......Page 38 3 Cuba’s Cold War Medical Aid Programs......Page 72 4 Contemporary Cuban Medical Aid Programs: The General Third World Arena......Page 110 5 Contemporary Cuban Medical Aid Programs: Latin America and the Caribbean......Page 134 6 Toward an Understanding of Cuban Medical Internationalism......Page 182 Notes......Page 204 B......Page 232 C......Page 233 G......Page 235 H......Page 236 L......Page 237 N......Page 238 S......Page 239 V......Page 240 Z......Page 241 While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 36,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the Third World; and since 2004 over 1.2 million in Latin America and the Caribbean have had their eyesight restored. How has this small nation of 11.3 million people managed to save more lives in the developing world than all of the G-8 countries together? And what are its motives? This book, the result of four years of research in Cuba, provides an updated analysis of this extraordinary record. Cuba as a world medical power The Cuban health care system Cuba's Cold War medical aid programs Contemporary Cuban medical aid programs : the general Third World arena Contemporary Cuban medical aid programs : Latin America and the Caribbean Towards an understanding of Cuban medical internationalism.