Christina Perez

Caring for Them from Birth to Death

The Practice of Community-Based Cuban Medicine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through qualitative interviews and participant observation with Cuban primary care neighborhood doctors and nurses, this book brings the reader into everyday life in Havana. The first book to examine Cuba's health care system and the health of the Cuban population since the Special Period, it explains how Cuba manages to improve its health indices year after year_an extraordinary achievement, considering the economic inequalities that exist in Cuba today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780739118276
• ISBN-10: 0739118277
• Artikelnr.: 23500671

Autorenporträt

By Christina Perez

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Figures and Tables Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3
Chapter 1: Materialist Medicine and the Battle of Ideas Chapter 4 Chapter
2: Living and Working in the Field Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Family Doctors,
Havana Neighborhoods, and Community Medicine Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Health is
Life Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Reproductive Health and the Family Doctor Chapter
8 Chapter 6: Holding Vigil Over Families Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Ser Humano
Chapter 10 Conclusion: Health Care is a Right Chapter 11 Selected
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