"All Cubans are doctors!" news coverage of health and bioexceptionalism in Cuba

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1037-1044

  Briggs, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocommunicability; Cuba; Health communication; Health media; Popular participation; Self medication; Socialist medicine

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MEDIA ROLE; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CUBA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLICATION; SELF MEDICATION; SOCIAL MEDICINE;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CUBA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS MEDIA; SELF CARE; SELF MEDICATION; STATE MEDICINE;

CUBA;

EID: 81155160999     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.06.054     Document Type: Article

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