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Venezuela’s Health Care Revolution
Venezuela’s Health Care Revolution
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Publisher:
Fernwood Publishing
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Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
2015
ISBN-13: 9781552668054
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<p>Established under late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Misión Barrio Adentro (MBA) — Venezuela’s adaptation of the Cuban social medical model — utilizes a free, universal health care system to serve and educate rural, poor and marginalized populations and to broaden the very praxis and ideology of what health means in a true Latin American social medicine approach. MBA moves beyond conventional medicine to form a true community-oriented primary care system</p>

<p>Through qualitative research with personnel from both sides of the political spectrum in Venezuela, <em>Venezuela’s Health Care Revolution</em> offers a unique analysis of MBA’s ability to empower marginalized populations to become health care providers for their own medically vulnerable and under-served communities. Further, Chris Walker argues that the potential of this medical approach is significant not just in Latin America but in Canada and the United States as well.</p>

<p>Chris Walker is a PhD candidate at Saint Mary’s University and the author of several publications on Cuban medical adaptations as well as on the cultural constructions of health care, medical education, rural/urban medical disparities and the connections between politics, health and poverty. </p>