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Geographical Locations - Cuba
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- (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 303
- CIA - World Factbook : Cuba
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- Civil society and health system in Cuba - This 2007 paper by Francisco Rojas Ochoa and Leticia Artiles Visbal on behalf of the Health Systems Knowledge Network, the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, was translated from the Spanish. Its purpose was "to provide information on Cuba's experience in social participation in the construction of a national health system, its development and control."
- Health in the Americas 2007: Cuba - As a health agency, the Pan American Health Organization’s core discipline is epidemiology, which enables the measurement, definition, and comparison of health problems and conditions and their distribution from the perspectives of population, geography, and time. This publication on Cuba addresses the issue of health as a human right, taking into account both the individual and community contexts, and examines various critical determinants of health, including those of a biological, social, cultural, economic, and political nature. That examination reveals the existence of gaps, disparities, and inequities that persist in Cuba, especially those related to access to basic services, health, nutrition, housing, and adequate living conditions as well as to the lack of opportunities for human development—all of which contribute to the greater vulnerability to diseases and health risks of some population groups. [Adapted from the preface of Health in the Americas 2007]
- Thomas McKeown, Meet Fidel Castro: Physicians, Population Health and the Cuban Paradox - [Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé, 3(4) 2008: 21-32] “About 40 years ago, Thomas McKeown demonstrated that the historic decline in the great killer diseases owed little or nothing to progress in medicine. A generation of research on population health followed, highlighting the large social gradients in health within populations. These vary greatly across societies, but appear largely unrelated to medical care. Medicine was acknowledged as ‘powerful, but within limits’; the major determinants of health lie elsewhere. We may have missed something. Cuba has achieved ‘first world’ population health status despite a minimal economic base. Far from marginalizing medicine, Cuba has by far the world's largest physician workforce. But doctors' roles are significantly expanded. The system seems to work.”
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