Managing the COVID-19 Epidemic in Cuba With Syndemic and Social Determination Approaches to Health

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syndemic, social determination of health, COVID-19, Cuba.

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 epidemic had a negative impact on the achievement of the sustainable development goals and objectives established for the year 2030, by placing the issues of poverty, social inequalities and health inequities at the center of the international debate and the need to comprehensively address this syndemic from a social determination approach to health. 

Objective: To present the Cuban experience of managing the COVID-19 epidemic from the syndemic theory and the approach of the social determination of health.

Methods: A review and documentary analysis was carried out to identify the regularities present in the management of the COVID epidemic in Cuba and in the world from a syndemic and social determination of health approach. The experiences of the main author during his work as an epidemiological advisor for the management of the epidemic in six Cuban provinces were presented. 

Conclusions: It is necessary to deepen the potentialities of these approaches to address the social determinants of the epidemic intersectorally and avoid the effects on economic, social and health development.

 

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Adolfo Gerardo Álvarez Pérez, Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiologia y Microbiología (INHEM). La Habana, Cuba.

Investigador y profesor Auxiliar. Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiologia y Microbiología (INHEM).

Dirección Postal: Calle novena 1518 entre entrada y 2da. Reparto Antonio Maceo. Cerro CP: 10600. La Habana. Cuba

Teléfono: 52660290

 

Teléfono: 52660290

Lidia Caridad Hernández Gómez, Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ENSAP). La Habana, Cuba.

Doctora en Ciencias de la Salud. Especialista y Master en Psicología de la Salud. Licenciada en Psicología. Profesora Titular. Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ENSAP)

Isabel Pilar Luis Gonzálvez, Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología, La Habana, Cuba.

Máster en Salud Pública. Máster en Bioética. Especialista de I Grado en Higiene y Epidemiologia. Investigador y profesor Auxiliar. Instituto Nacional de Higiene, Epidemiologia y Microbiología (INHEM).

Tomás Reinoso Medrano, Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ENSAP). La Habana, Cuba.

Doctor en Ciencias de Médicas. Especialista de II Grado en Organización y Administración de Salud. Doctor en Medicina. Profesor Titular y Consultante. Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ENSAP)

Email: treinoso@infomed.sld.cu    

Digna Edelys Hernández Meléndrez, Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ENSAP). La Habana, Cuba.

Doctora en Ciencias Psicológicas. Especialista y Master en Psicología de la Salud. Licenciada en Psicología. Investigadora y Profesora Titular y Consultante. Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública (ENSAP).

Published

2023-10-09

How to Cite

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Álvarez Pérez AG, Hernández Gómez LC, Luis Gonzálvez IP, Reinoso Medrano T, Hernández Meléndrez DE. Managing the COVID-19 Epidemic in Cuba With Syndemic and Social Determination Approaches to Health. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [Internet]. 2023 Oct. 9 [cited 2026 Aug. 10];49(2):e_3947. Available from: https://revsaludpublica.sld.cu/index.php/spu/article/view/3947

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