Healthcare in the Caribbean: Healthcare in Barbados, Healthcare in Cuba, Healthcare in Grenada, Healthcare in Haiti, Healthcare in Jamaica

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Abortion in the Caribbean, Healthcare in Barbados, Healthcare in Cuba, Healthcare in Grenada, Healthcare in Haiti, Healthcare in Jamaica, Healthcare in Puerto Rico, Healthcare in Trinidad and Tobago, Cuban medical internationalism, MEDICC, Cuban Neurosciences Center, Carlos Finlay, Puerto Rico Health Reform, Triple-S Management Corporation, Hilda Molina, Meds and Food for Kids, Margarita Tamargo-Sanchez, Center of Molecular Immunology, Hispanic Health Council, List of hospitals in Jamaica, Cuban National Center for Sex Education, Abortion in the Dominican Republic, Abortion in Trinidad and Tobago, ACIMED, Sexolog a y Sociedad, List of hospitals in Barbados, List of hospitals in Cuba, List of hospitals in Grenada, Revista Cubana de Cirug a. Excerpt: The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. There are no private hospitals or clinics as all health services are government-run. The present Minister for Public Health is Jos Ram n Balaguer. An overall worsening in terms of disease and infant mortality rates was observed in the 1960s. AIDS is only one-sixth as common on a per-capita basis as in the United States. Like the rest of the Cuban economy, Cuban medical care suffered following the end of Soviet subsidies in 1991; the stepping up of the US embargo against Cuba at this time also had an effect. Cuba has one of the highest life expectancy rates in the region, with the average citizen living to 77.64 years old (just under the United States' 78.11 years). As was true of the other indigenous societies of the Americas, Cuban traditional medicine existed before the Spanish conquest. High-status traditional practitioners were called Bohiques. After colonization by the Spanish, Cuban medicine followed the Spanish tradit...