Background Cuba has extended its medical cooperation to Pacific Island Countries (PICs)
by supplying doctors to boost service delivery and offering scholarships for Pacific Islanders …

Grounded in a review of past and present academic South–South cooperation literatures,
this article advances ten theses that problematise empirical, theoretical, conceptual and …

The international migration of health workers has been described by Nelson Mandela as the
poaching of desperately needed skills from under-privileged regions. This book examines …

Purpose To document the equipment, resource and bed capacity of Intensive Care Units
(ICUs) in the Republic of Ghana. Materials and methods Cross-sectional observational study …

Although the population of Hispaniola, Cuba's most similar neighbour in the Caribbean,
continues to be threatened by parasitic diseases (including malaria), many tropical parasitic …

Latin American social medicine efforts are typically understood as national endeavours,
involving health workers, policymakers, academics, social movements, unions, and left-wing …

In one of the most traditionally hierarchical and “colonial” of the Bolivian state apparatuses,
the official health sector, attempts since 2006 by Evo Morales and the MAS government at …

Cuba currently has more than 38,000 health workers providing emergency relief, long-term
community-based care and medical education to some of the most vulnerable communities …

Background Medical training has shown to be strategic for strengthening health systems,
especially in those countries identified to have critical shortage of human resources for …

Cuba's public health system is well known for its integrated first line services based on family
medicine. Less publicized is the country's experience in public hospital management. After a …