Health Care Delivery System in Cuba

Health Care Delivery System in Cuba

Cuba is an island with an estimated population of 9170000.The climate is subtropical. Agriculture is the most important economic activity. The world’s biggest producer of sugar.

Principles of health care delivery system in Cuba:
1.Health of a population is government responsibility.
2.Health services should be available to all the population
3.The community should participate actively in health work
4.Preventive and curative health services should be intergraded.

Cuba has a health service system accessible and available to practically 100% of the population, with a referral system ensuring the approriate level of care for each patient.
Preventive curative and rehabilitative services are well planned and integrated and show excellent result in terms of service indicators and mortality and morbidity data.

50% or more of the budget is allotted to to health and education.

Certain factors have helped to make the Cuban health services efficient, such as extremely high motivation of health services, complete literacy, high proportion of doctors and other proffessionals staff, good transport facilities, mass mobilization and full participation of the people.