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Cuba's health system

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Cuba's health system is a state-run model characterized by universal access to healthcare, a focus on preventive medicine, and a strong emphasis on community-based services. It is organized around primary care and integrates public health initiatives, aiming to achieve health equity and improve population health outcomes.
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Cuba's health system is a state-run model characterized by universal access to healthcare, a focus on preventive medicine, and a strong emphasis on community-based services. It is organized around primary care and integrates public health initiatives, aiming to achieve health equity and improve population health outcomes.

Key research themes

1. How do socioeconomic factors influence health outcomes and disparities within Cuba's universal healthcare system?

This research theme investigates the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and health in Cuba, focusing on whether health gradients similar to those found in high-income countries exist within Cuba's egalitarian and universally accessible healthcare context. It also explores the mechanisms linking SEP to health outcomes, including behaviors and risk perceptions, which is pivotal for designing policies targeting health inequalities despite universal healthcare coverage.

Key finding: This study identified subtle but significant gradients in health outcomes in Cuba related to education, occupation, and skin color, despite universal healthcare. Using objective biomarkers and subjective self-reported health... Read more
Key finding: The study revealed that socioeconomic factors such as age, income, and employment status affect patterns of healthcare utilization in urban Cuba. Despite free access, patients often bypass family doctors to use emergency... Read more
Key finding: This analysis challenges the narrative that Cuba's health outcomes are solely products of an effective healthcare system by arguing that improvements are partly due to coercive institutions and socioeconomic constraints that... Read more

2. What are the challenges and adaptations within Cuba's health system in response to demographic changes and economic constraints post-1990s?

This theme explores Cuba's health system adaptations in the context of the Special Period following the Soviet collapse, focusing on how economic hardship, international cooperation, and demographic shifts such as population aging affect health system performance, resource allocation, and sustainability. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for sustaining Cuba’s health gains amid evolving socioeconomic conditions and international pressures.

Key finding: The paper documents Cuba's health system resilience during the 1990s economic crisis and discusses current opportunities such as economic recovery and international cooperation, alongside challenges including the impact of... Read more
Key finding: This historical analysis traces the evolution of Cuba's primary healthcare system through three distinct phases culminating in the Family Physician and Nurse Program. It highlights the system’s restructuring in response to... Read more
Key finding: The ethnographic study reveals how Cubans adapt individual health practices amid post-Soviet economic scarcity, with increased reliance on biomedical technologies and markets, often funded through foreign currency. It links... Read more
Key finding: The analysis situates Cuba's economic reforms post-2008 within socialist market transition models, arguing that Cuba is cautiously moving toward market mechanisms without full privatization. The study implies that these... Read more

3. How does Cuba's international medical cooperation influence domestic healthcare and global health diplomacy?

This theme examines Cuba’s extensive exportation of medical personnel under programs of medical internationalism, assessing its scale, motivations, and consequences for the Cuban health workforce, domestic health system sustainability, and Cuba’s geopolitical positioning. It provides insight into how health services are mobilized as currency of diplomacy and economic exchange in a globalized context.

Key finding: This early empirical account quantified Cuba’s substantial deployment of over 2,300 medical personnel abroad, including scenarios where Cuban doctors provided the majority of healthcare in some African countries. It... Read more
Key finding: The study introduces the framework of ‘transactional humanitarianism’ to analyze Cuban medical internationalism as a form of state strategy that commodifies medical expertise for economic sustainability and political... Read more
Key finding: While focusing on the Bahamas, this study provides regional comparative context revealing how Caribbean health systems, including Cuba’s, are shaped by colonial histories and ongoing reform challenges. It situates Cuba’s... Read more

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A historic review of the Cuban Medical education system. Profound changes are under way in Cuban medical education. Some aspects of this transformation represent radical shifts, others a deepening of processes already in motion. Together,... more
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Ongoing political changes in Cuba following Fidel Castro's death offer an opportunity to evaluate his regime's legacy with regards to health outcomes. The common assessment is that Cuba's achievements in lowering infant mortality and... more
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