Cuba's Healthcare System Essay

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Since World War II, the United Nations started coordinating aid operations in a Europe devastated by conflagration and by massive people displacements. Since that moment, international community counts with the organization to answer to the natural disasters or men produced, which a country couldn’t face with only its own manner. The United Nation is one of the leading organizations that provides emergency relief and long-term care, catalyzes the action of governments and other humanitarian organizations and defends the cause of people affected by disasters. Since the first days of the Cuban Revolution, in 1959, Cuban President Fidel Castro, prioritized education and health as the most important pillars of the new society, which have been …show more content…

Cuba’s healthcare system is recognized worldwide for its excellence and its efficiency. Despite of very limited resources and the dramatic impact caused by the economic sanctions once imposed by the United States for more than half a century, Cuba achieved to universalize the access to healthcare for all the segment of population and obtain similar results to those more developed nations. The World Health Organization (WHO) remembers that the missing of medical attention in the world is not in any way a fatality produced by the lack of resources. Reflects, instead, a lack of political will on the part of leaders to protect their most vulnerable populations. Cuba bases its healthcare system in preventive medicine and the results are exceptional. According to Margaret Chan, General Director of WHO, the world should follow Cuba’s example in this area and replace the curative model, expensive and inefficient, with a system based in prevention. During her recent visit to Havana, amazed by the achievements in this area, she said: "Cuba is the only country that has a health care system closely linked to research and development. This is the way to go, because human health can only improve through innovation," She also praised "the efforts of the country's leadership for having made health an essential pillar of

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