An Approach to Cultural Competence Education into the Pharmacy Curriculum: Glances from the Cuban Framework

Table 1

Standard of Cuba’s health successes.

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Health care system: free, universal, and accessible for all citizens [50].

Prevention is the first principle of the Cuban health system [51].

Number of physicians: 103 835 [51].

Number of Odontologists 20 589 [51].

Number of pharmacists: 5 319 [51].

Number of Nursing: 61 736 [51].

Number of Pharmacy technicians: 2 606 [41].

Life expectancy at birth 79.5 years [52].

Infant mortality 3,81 [52].

Free for all HIV/AIDS infected patients [53].

The lowest HIV prevalence in the Caribbean (0.2–0.3%) [54].

Poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, and rubella, have been eradicated [55].

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