Fulanito de Tal
4th January 2011, 15:48
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2011/01/03/cuba-alcanza-tasa-mortalidad-mas-baja-de-su-historia/
Cuba achieved the lowest mortality rate in its history
Cuba ended 2010 with an infant mortality rate 4.5 per thousand live births, the lowest in the country throughout its history.
The newspaper Granma reported today that Villa Clara tops the list with 2.5, while seven other provinces fall below 5.0: Holguín 3.0, Cienfuegos and Matanzas 3.7, 4.4 Camagüey, Granma 4.7 , and Pinar del Rio and Sancti Spiritus, 4.9.
Explains that the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud shows 2.8, and the provinces with a score higher than 5.0 do not exceed a rate of 5.7, an exponent of the fairness of the Cuban social system.
In addition, 23 municipalities reported zero mortality.
In the year just ended was 127 000 710 births, two thousand 326 less than in 2009, although at least 45 deaths.
These are results of the labors of the Revolution for the health and welfare of mother and child, refers to the newspaper.
Adds that there is more than the confirmation of the efforts of a poor and criminally blockaded has established itself as the nation of the Americas with the lowest infant mortality, international indicator that measures the quality with which a society cares for and protects pregnant women, to postpartum women and children.
Among the factors that have contributed to these favorable rates are, first, the political will of the revolutionary government to provide health care to all citizens, with special care to mothers and children.
They also determine the existence of a high level of education of the population and a vaccination program that covers 13 diseases, with a coverage of almost one hundred percent of children, which has led to the eradication and control of various preventable diseases immunization.
Also affects the fact of having a universal health system, accessible and free for all, based on an extensive network of health centers and primary care facilities, along with systematic promotion and prevention campaigns.
In general, per capita expenditure on health, which were of three pesos to 72 cents in 1959 (with a population of about seven million) in 2010 rose up to 576 pesos per capita for the 11 million 242 thousand 628 people.
Cuba achieved the lowest mortality rate in its history
Cuba ended 2010 with an infant mortality rate 4.5 per thousand live births, the lowest in the country throughout its history.
The newspaper Granma reported today that Villa Clara tops the list with 2.5, while seven other provinces fall below 5.0: Holguín 3.0, Cienfuegos and Matanzas 3.7, 4.4 Camagüey, Granma 4.7 , and Pinar del Rio and Sancti Spiritus, 4.9.
Explains that the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud shows 2.8, and the provinces with a score higher than 5.0 do not exceed a rate of 5.7, an exponent of the fairness of the Cuban social system.
In addition, 23 municipalities reported zero mortality.
In the year just ended was 127 000 710 births, two thousand 326 less than in 2009, although at least 45 deaths.
These are results of the labors of the Revolution for the health and welfare of mother and child, refers to the newspaper.
Adds that there is more than the confirmation of the efforts of a poor and criminally blockaded has established itself as the nation of the Americas with the lowest infant mortality, international indicator that measures the quality with which a society cares for and protects pregnant women, to postpartum women and children.
Among the factors that have contributed to these favorable rates are, first, the political will of the revolutionary government to provide health care to all citizens, with special care to mothers and children.
They also determine the existence of a high level of education of the population and a vaccination program that covers 13 diseases, with a coverage of almost one hundred percent of children, which has led to the eradication and control of various preventable diseases immunization.
Also affects the fact of having a universal health system, accessible and free for all, based on an extensive network of health centers and primary care facilities, along with systematic promotion and prevention campaigns.
In general, per capita expenditure on health, which were of three pesos to 72 cents in 1959 (with a population of about seven million) in 2010 rose up to 576 pesos per capita for the 11 million 242 thousand 628 people.