The 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
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher
