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2. 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.
3. Cuban Medical Cooperation in Haiti: One of the World's Best-Kept Secrets
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Kirk,Emily J. (Author) and Kirk,John M. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Cuban Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 41 : 166-172
- Notes:
- Analyzes Cuba's medical role in Haiti since Hurricane Georges in 1998, with particular emphasis on the Cuban government's response to the 2010 earthquake. Examines two central themes. First, it assesses the enormous impact on public health that Cuba has made since 1998, and second, it provides a comparative analysis of Cuba's medical role since the earthquake.
4. Free Obstetric Care in Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- World Health Organization (Author)
- Format:
- Pamphlet
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- World Health Organization
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 8 p., Targeted at some of Haiti's poorest and most vulnerable women, the Free Obstetric Care project offers free assisted childbirth and consultations to those who cannot afford to pay. This booklet looks at the impact of the project after its launch in 2008. Following the devastation caused by the January 2010 earthquake, the project will need to rebuild -- but its record documented in these pages, makes a compelling case not just to reestablish but to extend it to the whole country. Indeed, the experience of the SOG project demonstrates how free obstetric care can help to build the future health of women and newborns across Haiti.
5. Haiti: Aftershocks
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heymann,David L. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Feb 2010
- Published:
- London, UK: Royal Institute of International Affairs
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The World Today
- Journal Title Details:
- 66(2) : 4-6
- Notes:
- Hundreds of thousands are likely to have died, millions are in need, their homes having been lost. Many wait for medical care. Safe water is in short supply and the rainy season starts in May. Could it have been different in Haiti? Would good planning have eased the pain of the shocks?
6. 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.
7. Human Rights Assessment in Parc Jean Marie Vincent, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cullen,Kimberly A. (Author) and Ivers,Louise C. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Boston, MA: Harvard School of Public Health
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Health and human rights
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(2)
- Notes:
- The Sphere Project, "Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response," identifies the minimum standards to be attained in disaster response. From a human rights perspective and utilizing key indicators from the Sphere Project as benchmarks, this article reports on an assessment of the living conditions approximately 12 weeks after the earthquake in Parc Jean Marie Vincent, a spontaneous IDP camp in Port-au-Prince.
8. Impact of performance-based financing on primary health care services in Haiti
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Zeng,Wu (Author), Cros,Marion (Author), Wright,Katherine D. (Author), and Shepard,Donald S. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Sep 2013
- Published:
- Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Health policy and planning
- Journal Title Details:
- 28(6) : 596-605
- Notes:
- To strengthen Haiti's primary health care (PHC) system, the country first piloted performance-based financing (PBF) in 1999 and subsequently expanded the approach to most internationally funded non-government organizations. PBF complements support (training and technical assistance). This study evaluates (a) the separate impact of PBF and international support on PHC's service delivery; (b) the combined impact of PBF and technical assistance on PHC's service delivery; and (c) the costs of PBF implementation in Haiti.
9. 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.
10. Still Shaky: A Year After the Earthquake in Haiti, the Key to Stability Is to Build the State
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Crane,Keith (Author), Dobbins,James (Author), and Miller,Laurel E. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 2010
- Published:
- Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Rand Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(3) : 16-23
- Notes:
- The long-term prosperity and peace in Haiti depend on pursuing policies that have realistic prospects for implementation and are mutually coherent. Priorities include reforming the civil service and justice systems, streamlining regulations for business, reconstructing housing and infrastructure, improving schools and health care, and ensuring donor cooperation.