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Confluences in Social Change: Cuban Women and Health Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Virginia Olesen
Virginia Olesen*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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A somewhat neglected though thoroughly promising area for the analysis of changing women's roles lies in the matter of health and health care systems within any society. This is nowhere more the case than in the instance of contemporary Cuban health care and the part that women in that society play in the health care systems as deflners of health care problems, recipients of care, and as those who deliver care to others. Both women's roles and health care in contemporary Cuba have dramatically altered over the past decade, thus yielding doubly rich insights, which reciprocally illuminate both issues.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 17 , Issue 4: Special Issue: The Changing Role of Women in Latin America , November 1975 , pp. 398 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1975

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