1. The Myth of Cuban Health Care | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/07/myth-cuban-health-care/Jul 11, 2007 ... The Left has always had a deep psychological need to believe in the myth of Cuban health care. On that island, as everywhere else, ...
Can we believe in Cuba's medical and health statistic?
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Iniciativa Cubaverdad, Travelling to Cuba and following the news about Cuba for over 20 years.
Updated Jun 5 2016 · Author has 459 answers and 348.6k answer views
No. International experts and Cuban doctors that have left Cuba have confirmed that Cuba’s health statistics are manipulated for political reasons. (1)
A quote:
"However, some experts said that this obsession with statistics can be a two-edged sword when it comes to reliability. Some say Cuba is so concerned with its infant mortality and life-expectancy statistics that the government takes heavy-handed actions to protect their international rankings.
"Cuba does have a very low infant mortality rate, but pregnant women are treated with very authoritarian tactics to maintain these favorable statistics," said Tassie Katherine Hirschfeld, the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma who spent nine months living in Cuba to study the nation's health system. "They are pressured to undergo abortions that they may not want if prenatal screening detects fetal abnormalities. If pregnant women develop complications, they are placed in 'Casas de Maternidad' for monitoring, even if they would prefer to be at home. Individual doctors are pressured by their superiors to reach certain statistical targets. If there is a spike in infant mortality in a certain district, doctors may be fired. There is pressure to falsify statistics."
Hirschfeld said she's "a little skeptical" about the longevity data too, since Cuba has so many risk factors that cause early death in other countries, from unfiltered cigarettes to contaminated water to a meat-heavy diet. In a more benign statistical quirk, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, suggests that the flow of refugees could skew longevity statistics, since those births are recorded but the deaths are not.
Transparency would help give the data more credibility, but the Cuban government doesn't offer much, experts said." (2)
Can we believe in Cuba's medical and health statistic?
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Iniciativa Cubaverdad, Travelling to Cuba and following the news about Cuba for over 20 years.
Updated Jun 5 2016 · Author has 459 answers and 348.6k answer views
No. International experts and Cuban doctors that have left Cuba have confirmed that Cuba’s health statistics are manipulated for political reasons. (1)
A quote:
"However, some experts said that this obsession with statistics can be a two-edged sword when it comes to reliability. Some say Cuba is so concerned with its infant mortality and life-expectancy statistics that the government takes heavy-handed actions to protect their international rankings.
"Cuba does have a very low infant mortality rate, but pregnant women are treated with very authoritarian tactics to maintain these favorable statistics," said Tassie Katherine Hirschfeld, the chair of the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma who spent nine months living in Cuba to study the nation's health system. "They are pressured to undergo abortions that they may not want if prenatal screening detects fetal abnormalities. If pregnant women develop complications, they are placed in 'Casas de Maternidad' for monitoring, even if they would prefer to be at home. Individual doctors are pressured by their superiors to reach certain statistical targets. If there is a spike in infant mortality in a certain district, doctors may be fired. There is pressure to falsify statistics."
Hirschfeld said she's "a little skeptical" about the longevity data too, since Cuba has so many risk factors that cause early death in other countries, from unfiltered cigarettes to contaminated water to a meat-heavy diet. In a more benign statistical quirk, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, suggests that the flow of refugees could skew longevity statistics, since those births are recorded but the deaths are not.
Transparency would help give the data more credibility, but the Cuban government doesn't offer much, experts said." (2)
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