Cuban medical internationalism [electronic resource] : origins, evolution, and goals / John M. Kirk and H. Michael Erisman.
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...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Studies of the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 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.