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Health in Cuba: Prevention Better than Cure
Cuban healthcare delivers some impressive results – and it’s free. In the first of two special programmes from Havana, Claudia Hammond finds out how it works
Cuba is not a rich country but it has free, universal healthcare and some impressive health statistics. In the first of two, special programmes from Havana, Claudia Hammond investigates how Cuba manages to have lower rates of infant mortality and similar life expectancy, to the United States. Is it the focus on prevention, that is the key – and could other countries learn from the Cuban experience?
Producer: Fiona Hill
(Photo: Cuban Hospital, Credit: Getty Images)
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