CHALLENGES OF THE HEALTH SECTOR AND POPULATION AGING IN CUBA: ETHICAL AND POLITICAL STAKES

Abstract

The development of health services in Cuba has been grounded in specific social and political ethics, embedded in the
Revolutionary goals of social justice. Their performances are
remarkable and widely documented, but they have been
undergoing a series of economic and socio-demographic
challenges. In a context of strong fiscal constraints, aging
represent an ordeal which, beyond mere health stakes,
raises issues of intergenerational justice and that of the
sustainability of equalitarian achievements of social policies.