The National Health Policy in Cuba gives priority to health as a right, an essential component of human well-being and a strategic objective of development. The country devotes efforts and resources to the development and consolidation of the National Health System (SNS), characterized by the principles of universality, gratuity, accessibility, regionalization and integrality, providing care to all citizens in the countryside and the city, and also with an internationalist conception. The strategy and the fundamental axis of the SNS is primary health care, which is currently immersed in a process of transformation in order to continue advancing towards universal health, improving the health of the population, increasing the quality of services, and make their actions more efficient and sustainable.
This issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health dedicated to the health system in Cuba addresses the achievements, challenges and lessons learned in topics such as the development of the health care model; the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases; the ability to respond to communicable diseases; the experience in immunization; maternal and child health; the formation of human capital for health; the confrontation of demographic aging; health and its relation to disasters and climate change; economic considerations on public health and universal health; science and technological innovation in health; and the application of eHealth.
The articles present important evidence about the health care model, health innovations, resilience and solidarity of the health system of Cuba, potentially applicable to other health systems of the Region of the Americas.
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EDITORIALS
Cuba aims for Universal Health
Carissa F. Etienne
Editorial l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.64 l PDF English-Español l Published 24 April 2018
Experiences and lessons from Cuba on the road to Universal Health in the Americas
Cristian Morales and James Fitzgerald
Editorial l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.63 l PDF English-Español l Published 24 April 2018
Transformations in the health system in Cuba and current strategies for its consolidation and sustainability
Roberto Morales Ojeda, Pedro Mas Bermejo, Pastor Castell-Florit Serrate, Carmen Arocha Mariño, Nelly C. Valdivia Onega, Dalilis Druyet Castillo and José A. Menéndez Bravo
Overview lhttps://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.25 l Published 24 April 2018
ARTICLES
Non-communicable diseases: risk factors and actions for their prevention and control in Cuba
Orlando Landrove-Rodríguez, Alain Morejón-Giraldoni, Silvia Venero-Fernández, Ramón Suárez-Medina, Miguel Almaguer-López, Esther Pallarols-Mariño, Isora Ramos-Valle, Patricia Varona-Pérez, Vivian Pérez-Jiménez and Pedro Ordúñez
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.23 l Published 24 April 2018
Maternal and child health care in Cuba: achievements and challenges
María Cecilia Santana Espinosa, Mercedes Esquivel Lauzurique, Violeta Regla Herrera Alcázar, Berta Lidia Castro Pacheco, María del Carmen Machado Lubián, Duniesky Cintra Cala, Roberto Tomás Álvarez Fumero and Beatriz Marcheco Teruel
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.27 l Published 24 April 2018
Quality of maternal mortality statistics in Cuba, 2013
Sonia Bess Constantén, Miguel Ángel Martínez Morales, María Rosa Fernández Viera, Vanessa Mazorra Ramos, Ismell Alonso Alomá, Libia Margarita López Nistal, Miriam Alicia Gran Álvarez, Roberto Álvarez Fumero and Mercedes Piloto Padrón
Original research l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.47 l Published 24 April 2018
Cuban experience in immunization, 1962-2016
Lena López Ambrón, Liudmila Ibelin Egües Torres, Alina Pérez Carreras, Belkys María Galindo Santana, Miguel Ángel Galindo Sardiña, Sonia Resik Aguirre and Alina Tejeda Fuentes
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.34 l Published 24 April 2018
Response capacity and challenges of the Cuban health system against communicable diseases
Denis Verdasquera Corcho, Isora Ramos Valle, Susana Borroto Gutiérrez, Raisa Rumbaut Castillo, Lorenzo Jorge Pérez Ávila, Lázara Alfonso Berrio, Pablo León Cabrera, Susett Pérez Parra, Francisco and Alberto Durán García
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.30 l Published 24 April 2018
Approaches, evolution and coping with the demographic aging in Cuba
Héctor Demetrio Bayarre Vea, María Esther Álvarez Lauzarique, Julia Silvia Pérez Piñero, Kenia Almenares Rodríguez, Aida Rodríguez Cabrera, María del Carmen Pría Barros, Lilliams Rodríguez Rivera, Alberto Fernández Seco and Ariadna Corral Martín
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.21 l Published 24 April 2018
The Family Doctor and Nurse Program: development of the health care model in Cuba
Lilia Turquina González Cárdenas, Leonardo Cuesta Mejías, Lizette Pérez Perea, María Clarivel Presno Labrador, Ivonne Elena Fernández Díaz, Teresa de la Caridad Pérez Díaz, Sarah Elisa Guerrero Chacón, and Caridad Pérez Charbonier
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.31 l Published 24 April 2018
Training of human capital for health in Cuba
Juan Vela-Valdés, Ramón Syr Salas-Perea, María Luisa Quintana-Galende, Nayra Pujals-Victoria, Jorge Gonzáles Pérez, Lázaro Díaz Hernández, Lizette Pérez Perea and María Vidal Ledo
Special report lhttps://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.33 l Published 24 April 2018
Economic considerations on Cuban public health and its relationship with universal health
Ana María Gálvez González, Roxana González López, Manuel Álvarez Muñiz, María Josefina Vidal Ledo, Nery de la Concepción Suárez Lugo and Mayelín Vázquez Santiesteban
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.28 l Published 24 April 2018
The health sector in the face of disasters and climate change in Cuba
Guillermo Mesa Ridel, Joel González García, María Cristina Reyes Fernández, Duniesky Cintra Cala, Yudix Ferreiro Rodríguez and José Ernesto Betancourt Lavastida
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.24 l Published 24 April 2018
Science and technological innovation in health in Cuba: results in selected problems
Nereida Rojo Pérez, Carmen Valenti Pérez, Nelcy Martínez Trujillo, Ileana Morales Suárez, Eric Martínez Torres, Ileana Fleitas Estévez, Miriam Portuondo Sao, Yisel Torres Rojo and V. Gustavo Sierra González
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.32 l Published 24 April 2018
Application of eHealth in the Cuban context
M. Niurka Vialart Vidal, María J. Vidal Ledo, Yanetsys Sarduy Domínguez, Ariel Delgado Ramos, Alfredo Rodríguez Díaz, Ileana Fleitas Estévez, Madelayne Muñoz Morejón, Xaily Gavilondo Mariño and Rodolfo Pérez Matar
Special report l https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2018.19 l Published 24 April 2018