Public Health Systems (Cuba) #8
Public Health Systems (Cuba). Eighth presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021. Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jJzZ1D0YE
Partnerships for self-determination: The Cuba-Timor health cooperation (2018)
This paper uses the Cuban Timor Leste health partnership to illustrate desirable principles in aid partnerships. For all its problems, Timor Leste has graduated one thousand doctors in the past decade, created clinics in all rural districts and has seen substantial […]
Doctora Ana: Saraguro Ecuador (2014)
Interview with Doctora Ana, from Saraguro Ecuador, humanist doctor trained in Cuba, 2014.
Unlikely partners: Challenges for an Australia-Cuba collaboration in Pacific health (2014)
In June 2010, at a joint press conference in Perth, the foreign ministers of Australia and Cuba expressed their wish to work together in a range of areas, in particular health aid programs in the Pacific and Caribbean regions (AMFAT […]
Timor’s New Doctors / Los Nuevos Médicos de Timor (2014)
By 2014, 800 Cuban-trained Timorese doctors had graduated in Timor Leste. They bring new values to the country, a Timorese ‘social medicine’.
Not really Europeans / No son realmente europeos: Cuban doctors in the Pacific (2013)
Interviews with Cubans and Pacific Islanders participating in Cuban international health solidarity in the Pacific region.
An army of white jackets: Graduation of 406 Timorese doctors (2012)
406 Timorese doctors graduate as a result of Cuban-East Timorese health cooperation.
Los 54: Third graduation of Timorese doctors (2011)
54 Timorese doctors graduate as a result of Cuban-East Timorese health cooperation.
La medicina social en Timor Oriental (2010)
“Medicina social”, un concept con un desarrollo notable en América Latina Social, promovido por Salvador Allende en los años 30s del siglo pasado, vincula un modelo amplio y un ethos de salud pública con procesos de tranformación social. En años recientes, […]
Social medicine in East Timor (2010)
“Social medicine”, a Latin American concept, notably developed by Salvador Allende in the 1930s, links up a broader model and ethos of public health with processes of social transformation. In recent years that influence has spread to Timor Leste, through a […]