This looks like a very interesting film.

Mary Anne

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You are invited to a free film screening of ˇSalud!, a documentary on Cuba and
their healthcare system. The UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
and the School of Medicine are sponsoring this showing on October 30, 2006 at
6:30pm in Hogness Auditorium (UW Health Sciences Center). There will be a
Question and Answer session after the film with one of the Executive Producers.
Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested in attending.

About the film:
For those committed to health in rich and poor nations alike, ˇSalud! -- a new
feature documentary by Academy Award nominee Connie Field -- explores the
curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of
the world's best health systems.' And for 40 years, Cuba's taken it to the
road, their doctors in demand by other struggling nations. ˇSalud! reaches into
The Gambia, rural South Africa, Honduran coastal villages, Caracas hillsides,
and the Venezuelan Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first doctor a poor
community has ever seen. In some nations, Cubans staff entire health systems.
In all, they take on the toughest challenges, bringing with them the philosophy
and experience of a community-oriented, preventive, and universal health care
model. Cuba's volunteer corps now posts 28,000 health professionals in 68
countries. Cuban medical schools enroll 30,000 students from other developing
areas, an unprecedented undertaking for any country. ˇSalud! questions what
propels Cuban doctors to serve where others won't, and grapples with the
tensions their presence sometimes provokes. The film probes the motivations of
international students at Havana's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)
where a bold paradigm shift is producing doctors committed to public service.
Through these stories and testimony from experts around the world, ˇSalud!
traces the opinions and competing agendas that mark the battle for better
global health. (83 minutes, 2006)

Sponsors:
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community
Medicine and School of Medicine.

For more information, contact Karen Hanson at 206-685-6699 or
klhanson@...