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Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cubaas Place in the Global Health Landscape
Robert Huish
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Description for Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cubaas Place in the Global Health Landscape
Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; KCQ; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millions of marginalized people. Cuba has developed a world-class health care system that provides universal access to its own citizens while committing to one of the most extensive international health outreach campaigns in the world. The country has trained thousands of foreign medical students for free under a moral agreement that they serve ... Read more
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millions of marginalized people. Cuba has developed a world-class health care system that provides universal access to its own citizens while committing to one of the most extensive international health outreach campaigns in the world. The country has trained thousands of foreign medical students for free under a moral agreement that they serve ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
324g
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554588336
SKU
V9781554588336
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About Robert Huish
Robert Huish is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of International Development Studies. He has published widely on how development strategies, notably through health care and sport education programs in Cuba, have worked to transform conditions of poverty and sub-development throughout the global South. He teaches courses on global health, poverty and human rights, and pedagogies of ... Read more
Reviews for Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cubaas Place in the Global Health Landscape
``Robert Huish's Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba's Place in the Global Health Landscape is a powerful broadside against the enormous international inequities in access to health care, not just ignored but furthered by wealthy countries.... It is an astonishing idea that a country with the population of Ontario and an economy less than one sixth of Ontario's should ... Read more