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Cuba's Response to COVID‐19: What Underlies its Apparent Success?
Author(s) -
Samuels Fiona
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.13189
Subject(s) - covid-19 , healthcare system , swift , health care , political science , economic growth , development economics , medicine , virology , economics , computer science , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
Over the last few months extremely positive accounts have been circulating of Cuba's role and approach in the COVID‐19 response, both nationally and internationally. A universal healthcare system with family doctors and nurses providing door‐to‐door services, as well as the swift introduction of measures to control movement have been some of the factors underlying this relative success. However, this success hides the disadvantageous social reality facing the majority of Cubans, including differential access to services, a health system that is struggling and limited choice and freedoms.