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GAMBOA DIAZ, Yadira; LUGO VALDES, Midiala; GARCIA VARGAS, Alexandro  y  DOMINGUEZ ARENCIBIA, Beatriz. Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Cuban Health System and Response Capacity. Infodir [online]. 2022, n.37, e1131.  Epub 08-Abr-2022. ISSN 1996-3521.

Introduction:

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative economic impact of great magnitude, which has represented for Cuba a decrease in its GDP affected already since 2019 by an unfavorable external context, registering an increase in public health costs, which demands a strengthening of capacities to control, prevent and attend the current COVID-19 and the appearance of new outbreaks.

Objective:

To present the economic impact of COVID-19 on the public health system and response capacity in Cuba.

Development:

A search for information was carried out in the bibliographic databases SciELO-Cuba and SciELO-Regional; the search engine Google Academic was used with the terms coronavirus, COVID-19, health, economic impact, economic expenses, Cuba for English and Spanish. For the development of the research, a total of 18 bibliographic sources were selected, which were adjusted to the topic in question.

Conclusions:

With sensitive lack of resources Cuba has managed to control the pandemic without collapse of its solid public health system and pharmaceutical industry, whose integrated action has been favored by the management of the Cuban Government, with indisputable results and its medical protocols have saved more lives than those implemented in other confines, demonstrated capacity for the management of the sanitary emergency, and its actions have even reached other countries.

Palabras clave : coronavirus; health expenditures; pharmaceutical industry; public health; government; responsiveness.

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