title: [Change and revolution: the rise of the National Health System in Cuba, 1959-1970].
abstract: This article studies the impact on the Cuban public health system of the political, economical and social changes that occurred after the 1959 Revolution, and the main transformations that occurred in the Cuban public health system during the 1960s, such as the creation of a new public health ministry, the nationalization of the pharmaceutical industry, the massive emigration of health professionals, a reform of medical studies, the creation of a Medical Rural Service, the incorporation of socialist principles in public health and the development of primary health care. As this article intends to demonstrate, these measures guided Cuban public health reform towards the construction of a state monopolized National Health System in 1970.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Medicina Calixto García, Universidad Virtual de la Salud de Cuba, Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas, La Habana. ebch@informed.sld.cu
authors.forename: Enrique Beldarraín
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Chaple
mesh_terms: D003462:Cuba; D035082:Federal Government / Q000266:history; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D013222:State Medicine / Q000266:history*