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What is MEDICC's vision? Health for all is possible.
What is MEDICC's mission? MEDICC is always cooperating with the US, Cuban and world populations to improve health where needed, as well as promoting the Cuban way of informing global debate, policies and practice.
Why MEDICC? 1.3 billion people live, and die, without health care, most are in developing countries. Many of these people number in the Millions in the USA despite new laws. Being able to prove that political will, not wealth, is the key to Cuba's powerful messagea country whose people are achieving excellent outcomes because their health is a priority investment of the scarce resources at hand. Cuba's contribution to improving global health is demonstrated in three unique ways:
1. By Example: Cuba's people are healthy based on strong community-engaged primary care.
2. By Strong Global Health Systems: People in 70 countries are benefiting from Cuba's Global health program. 38,000 Cuban health professionals have provided health services in the most unusual places. When disaster struck in Haiti, they were there as long as needed, staffing the public health facilities.
3. By training Doctors to work all over the world surprised ver 15,000 doctors have already graduated from Cubas Latin American Medical School (ELAM), with 20,000 more students currently enrolled from and for poor communities worldwide, including the USA!
."The most important contribution Cuba has made to global health is its example that you can introduce the notion of a right to health care and wipe out the diseases of poverty." Paul Farmer MD, Partners in Health & Harvard University
Cuba: The Scorecard- Outstanding Health Outcomes
Cuba is among the top 20 countries in progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals.1Save the Children ranks Cuba as the #1 country in Latin America to be a mother.2A woman born in the District of Columbia, U.S.A., has the same life expectancy as a woman born in Matanzas province in central Cuba.3Cuba has the lowest HIV rate in the Americas.4Doctor-to-patient ratio in Cuba is among the worlds highest; 61% of physicians are women.5The leading causes of death are the same for the US and Cuba (cancer, heart disease, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, and unintentional injury).6
Sources:
1 Millennium Development Goals Report Card: Learning from Progress, Overseas Development Institute, London, 2010, page 4, http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/6014.pdf
2 State of the World's Mother's Report, 2014, Save the Children, http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.9126825/k.3E86/Download_the_2014_SOWM_Report.htm
3 The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts, 2010, http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/life-expectancy-by-gender/ Anuario Estadstico de Cuba 2009, Edicin 2010, Oficina Nacional de Estadsticas (ONE), Havana, 2010, page 41
4 UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2013, Page A4, http://www.unaids.org/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/epidemiology/2013/gr2013/UNAIDS_Global_Report_2013_en.pdf
5 Anuario Estadistico de Salud 2013, Direccin de Registros Mdicos y Estadsticas de Salud, Ministerio de Salud Pblica de Cuba, La Habana, 2014, p. 121 A Universal Truth: No Health Without a Workforce, published by Global Health Workforce Alliance and WHO, 2013. page 52.)
6 Anuario Estadistico de Salud 2013, Direccin de Registros Mdicos y Estadsticas de Salud, Ministerio de Salud Pblica de Cuba, La Habana, 2014, p. 31
