...This chapter explores the healthcare system in Cuba. Cuba is the only country in Latin America to have been formally allied with the Soviet Union during the twentieth century, and the country’s health system retains many Soviet qualities. The Cuban healthcare system is controlled entirely...

...Nicole Pacino focuses on the connections between politics, healthcare, and health outcomes, showing that they are inextricably related. This connection is especially evident in the context of Bolivia’s 1952 social revolution, which brought the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario to power...

...Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, Healthcare in Latin America is the first volume to gather research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topic and region in fields such as history, sociology, women’s studies...

... of religion and aging. Then it moves to a discussion of aging and Islam in the United States, illustrating how underlying capitalist and neoliberal values of the healthcare system can inform how religious principles are interpreted and put into practice. This part of the chapter will draw on ethnographic...

... healthcare escapes Hawes-Cooper bill women prisoners It was a cold rainy morning November 15, 1925 when I arrived at Raiford. I had never been in prison before and this was quite an experience for me. Both cars of the Sheriff's deputies halted in front of two enormous wooden gates. Slowly they swung open...

...Using the recent COVID-19 crisis and its impact on Latin America as a starting point, this introduction to Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture suggests that national governments from Mexico to Argentina, whether reactionary or revolutionary, have approached...

...Carlos Dimas looks at the history of healthcare in Argentina and Brazil from the late nineteenth century to the modern day. It argues that healthcare evolved from a privilege to a right during the rise of populist governments throughout the region as part of social welfare programs. Similarly...

..., Bolivia, and Ecuador are studied in some depth, and an analysis is provided of the impact of Cuban-led nationwide campaigns for healthcare reform to assist the disabled. Cuba’s support for the three specialized programs studied here was successful in helping those sectors of the population often...

... the representation and perception of undocumented immigrants as a threat to the U.S. healthcare system, and the state of Arizona in particular. Focusing on popular media coverage of anti-immigrant senate proposals regarding healthcare in Arizona, this chapter first analyzes the ways in which arguments in support...

...This chapter examines a gender dimension within the healthcare for labor migration in Mauritius and, to some extent, Réunion. The archaeological research conducted in the last decade shows how public health management developed during the slavery and indenture periods of European colonialism...

...This chapter argues that Latino/a healthcare emerged in U.S. island colonies, where elite physicians constructed medical knowledge about tropical bacteriology, microbiology, disease eradication, sanitation, and quarantine measures. Medical officers returned from these colonies with new ideas...

...As the largest minority population in the U.S., the Latinx community has received considerable attention in the research literature surrounding healthcare disparities and potential factors that contribute to differences in healthcare outcomes. Disparities, such as higher incidence rates for heart...

... and reproductive health, as well as education and economic opportunities in the Andean region. Further improvements to the well-being of women and children will require greater access to reproductive and maternal healthcare, an increase in the status of women, and reductions in poverty in the region. Chávez Hugo...

...This chapter examines the linguistic and discursive construction of access to the healthcare system by transgender and disabled people in Colombian media. The study shows that Colombian media relies on spectacular and porn inspirational figures that conceal the role of the Neoliberal...

...Eric Carter compares the development of healthcare in Argentina and Chile from the early 1900s to the present. In both countries, health systems are marked by moments of rapid shifts that introduce policy innovations, followed by long periods of resistance to change. Argentina's health system...