Um olhar para a saúde pública cubana

Abstract

Over the last five decades, after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, Cuban medicine made remarkable advances in several areas. This article provides a thematic timeline of those advances. The development of new drugs, hygiene and sanitary education for the people, the building of hospitals and polyclinics, and free access to medical care for the entire population are some of the key factors analyzed. Other topics include the growing number of professionals in the medical field that make it possible to provide primary and preventive services (vaccination) to everyone, and the humanitarian campaigns of Cuban doctors who, in keeping with the humanitarian values of the Revolution, have become an example of solidarity around the world.