Venezuela's Health Care Revolution

by Chris Walker

Established under late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Misi n 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552667308
• ISBN13: 9781552667309
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"