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2. An Effective, Low-cost Approach to Implementing HIV/AIDS Education Programs in Low Literacy Populations: An Example from Rural Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Preidis,Geoffrey A. (Author), Shapiro,Conor D. (Author), Pierre,Inobert (Author), Dyer,Monica J. (Author), Kozinetz,Claudia A. (Author), and Grimes,Richard M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2010
- Published:
- Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of health care for the poor and underserved (J.Health Care Poor Underserved)
- Journal Title Details:
- 21(2) : 430-437
- Notes:
- The HIV/ AIDS pandemic disproportionately afflicts regions of the world that have minimal access to formal schooling and low literacy rates. Health educational interventions are difficult to evaluate efficiently in these settings because standard approaches such as written questionnaires cannot easily be employed. Describes a method of rapidly assessing health interventions among large groups that does not require the ability to read or write. This evaluation tool was tested within the context of a community-based HIV/AIDS drama education program in a low-literate region of rural Haiti.
3. Castrocare in Crisis: Will Lifting the Embargo Make Things Worse?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Garrett,Laurie (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 2010
- Published:
- New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Foreign Affairs
- Journal Title Details:
- 89(4) : 61-73
- Notes:
- Cubans are wildly optimistic about the transformations that will occur once the United States lifts its long-standing embargo on Cuba. Overlooked in these discussions, however, is how Cuba's health-care industry may be harmed by any serious easing of trade and travel restrictions between the two countries.
4. Health Care in the US and Cuba: Searching for the 96%
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fitz,Don (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2011
- Published:
- St. Louis, MO: WD Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Synthesis/Regeneration
- Journal Title Details:
- 54 : 29-33
- Notes:
- Don Fitz explains why quality health care does not have to be based on unending expansion of expensive medical technology. Adapted from the source document.
5. Population aging : is Latin America ready?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cotlear,D. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Washington, DC: World Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Workshop on Demographic Change and Social Policy in Latin America ; (2009 : Washington, D.C.)., 286 p, Latin America and the Caribbean will soon face the challenges of an aging population. This process, which took over a century in the rich world, will occur in two or three decades in the developing world; seven of the 25 countries that will age more rapidly are in LAC. Population aging will pose challenges and offer opportunities.
6. Population aging : is Latin America ready?
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cotlear,Daniel (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2011
- Published:
- Washington, DC: World Bank
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 286 p., Explores three sets of issues. First covers questions of work and retirement, income and wealth, and living arrangements and intergenerational transfers. It also explores the relation between the life cycle and poverty. Second is the question of the health transition. How does the demographic transition impact the health status of the population and the demand for health care? And how advanced is the health transition in LAC? Third is an understanding of the fiscal pressures that are likely to accompany population aging and to disentangle the role of demography from the role of policy in that process.
7. Sexuality, social exclusion & human rights: vulnerability in the Caribbean context of HIV
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Barrow,Christine (Editor), Bruin,Marjan de (Editor), and Carr,Robert (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Kingston ; Miami: Ian Randle Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 330 p., Examines some of the key drivers of HIV and AIDS by exploring risk, vulnerability, power, culture, sexuality and gender. Provides a unique perspective and analysis of the Caribbean response and how the inclusion of many different sectors in society and an interdisciplinary, rather than segregated multidisciplinary approach, can effectively address the spread of HIV and AIDS in the region.
8. Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kath,Elizabeth (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Transaction Publishers
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Transaction Publishers
- Notes:
- 200 p., For Cuba's supporters, health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all countries of the same level of economic development. Some of its health statistics rival wealthy industrialized countries. Moreover, these health outcomes have resulted against all odds. This study of the Cuban health system finds that the country possesses an unusually high level of popular participation and cooperation in the implementation of health policy. This has been achieved with the help of a longstanding government that prioritizes public health, and has enough political influence to compel the rest of the community to do the same. On the other hand, popular participation in decision-making regarding health policy is minimal, which contrasts with the image of popular participation often promoted. Political elites design and impose health policy, allowing little room for other health sector groups to meaningfully contribute to or protest official decisions. This is a problem because aspects of health care that are important to those who use the system or work within it can be neglected if they do not fit within official priorities. The country's preventive arrangements, its collective prioritization of key health areas, the improvements in public access to health services through the expansion of health facilities and the provision of free universal care are among the accomplishments that set it apart. The sustainability and progress of these achievements, however, must involve open recognition and public discussion of weaker aspects of the health system.
9. Therapeutic Imaginaries in the Caribbean: Competing Approaches to HIV/AIDS Policy in Cuba and Belize
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pope,Cynthia (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2012
- Published:
- United States: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
- Journal Title Details:
- 102(5) : 1157-1164
- Notes:
- Case studies demonstrate how countries in the same region can develop health care policies that represent different biomedical and sociocultural outcomes. For example, Cuba's policies result in the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the Caribbean, whereas Belize experiences the second highest rates.