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- Title
SAÚDE PÚBLICA NAS TELAS DO CINEJORNAL EM CUBA: PROJETOS, CONQUISTAS E USOS POLÍTICOS.
- Authors
Villaça, Mariana
- Abstract
In this article, we analyze the treatment given to public health policies in the Cuban newsreel Noticiero Icaic Latinoamericano, which has over a hundred reports on the subject during the three decades it was aired (1960 to 1990). The social and urban transformations brought about by the installation of large and modern hospital complexes, the advances of Soviet medicine through the futuristic approach of state-of-the-art equipment, the valorization of the doctor in the light of the "new man" model, the bellicose coverage of the combating epidemics, or the emphasis on the internationalization of Cuban programs such as Médico de la familia are some of the themes we address. In the Noticiero reports, these issues are treated in a way that praises the rapid modernization of Cuba and the social achievements of the Revolution, considered as heroic responses to the actions of US imperialism. The history of this newsreel allows us to scale the state effort and popular mobilization in the constitution of an effective national health system, which underwent significant transformations in the 1980s. The analysis of the editions also makes it possible to understand the political importance of this investment for government advertising, within and abroad, and for the establishment of Cuban foreign policy. Through this analysis, we reflect on the importance of the symbolic meanings of certain representations, as well as some silences and tensions, in Noticiero, which reveal difficulties and dilemmas latent in the history of Cuba in these decades.
- Subjects
CUBA; PUBLIC health; NATIONAL health services; GOVERNMENT advertising; GOVERNMENT publicity
- Publication
Historia: Questoes & Debates, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 1, p201
- ISSN
0100-6932
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5380/his.v70i1.81704