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In Cuba, the treatment of vulnerabilities in the population takes on a new tone in the current conditions. To address this social phenomenon, it is necessary to implement a methodological tool of proven effectiveness worldwide, such as the multidimensional measurement of poverty. This paper aims to explain the characteristics of multidimensional poverty measurement as a tool for improving government attention to vulnerabilities from public policies. The proposal of an Observatory as a way to achieve this task. Among the results of the work are: the elaboration of an instrument for the registration of socioeconomic information in the homes of the municipality, the formation of capacities in institutions and the municipal government, the development of a mobile application and a computer software for capturing, transmission, processing and dissemination of data collected at home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The achievements and challenges arising from the application of eHealth in the Cuban context to support universal health are presented. The Ministry of Public Health defi- ned the Computerization Strategy, whose lines of work are based on the components declared in the Strategy and Plan of Action on eHealth of the Pan American Health Organization, and in the Policy for the Computerization of the Society, approved by the Cuban Government. The paper describes the actions of the Cuban strategy elaborated to solve the limitations in the technological infrastructure, to develop the platforms, the tools and the applications required by the health services, and to stimulate the professionals' abilities to use them. The results of eHealth in Cuba are based on the application and evaluation of the strategy implemented in the framework of the improvement of the health sector through projects such as the electronic medical record called Galen Clínicas, the training of human resources and the resources for information and education from the Infomed Health Telematics Network. These models of solidarity and collaborative networking have contributed to universal health and positively impacted on the health system beyond the borders. The challenges of eHealth are the development of initiatives in mobile health --in which there is little experience--; telemedicine --a project that is stopped--; integration and interoperability among applications; the sustainability of the implemented solutions; insuffi- cient technological infrastructure; and strengthening of the legal framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper goes deeply into those determiners of qualified workforce that contribute to Cuba's economic growth. Based on estimates of production performances and accounting of such growth, elements contribution was determined, and it was corroborated that contribution of Cuban qualified workforce has been positive and meaningful, but with a tendency to decrease. As to what was previously stated, asimetries were identified regarding composition, provision, and performance of the aforementioned workforce. The main conclusion is that combination of such distortions has determined that its effective use is lower than that which is socially required and potential, all those in terms of economic growth and sustainability. Such has produced expenditures in terms of efficiencies that may be synthesize in productivity and inefficiency potential losses of education expenditures, whose correction demands a comprehensive design of public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a detailed review of the model of the Community Development Program for Marginalized Urban Areas ZUMAR+FIDEPO (Z+F), a social development program managed by the Ministry of Social and Human Development from the state of Guanajuato, which operates as a public trust. Based on a documentary analysis, it highlights the philosophy and vision, as well as its discourse and how development, participation and intervention has been conceptualized as the structural elements of the program. It also includes a punctual comparison with other similar projects in Chile and Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are many regulations for the design-development and the manufacture of biomaterials. The Center for Governmental Control of Medical Devices is the institution that evaluates this kind of products in Cuba, to guarantee safety and efficacy in their medical use. This evaluation requires the conformity with national or international technical standards. Certification of products and quality systems are carried out by the National Office for Standardization (NOS) and requires the compliance with pertinent national standards. Both evaluation processes demand from the manufacturer to keep a quality management system, including some requirements of the ISO 9000 standards. Quality system certification involves the compliance of the manufacturer requirements to guarantee customer satisfaction and the regulatory and technical requirements. In this paper the requirements of the quality system needed for product certification and medical registration in Cuba are discussed and their relation to ISO 9001 standard. Also, the results obtained by the Center of Biomaterials of Havana University in this field are shown. Nowadays, neither product certification nor regulatory requirements for medical registration include quality system requirements in the design development process, customer focus, continuous improvement, internal quality auditing or management revision. Product certification demands the control of documents, quality assay records, including specifications, having a difference with government assessment that does not have these requirements. For the medical registration, compliance with different requirements is claimed depending on the risk classification of the medical device. More requirements are asked for the assessment of Class III medical devices. Medical registration demands the control of supplies, product traceability and validation of special processes, specially the sterilization processes. ISO 9000 quality system certification includes the compliance with quality requirements demanded by product certification and medical registration. The Center of Biomaterials has implanted a ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System (QMS) in design- development and production that has been certified by NOS, having a solid support for medical registration of new products in the field of medical materials and for product certification. An effort has to be done by Cuban medical devices manufacturers to implant and certify their QMS and also to develop national technical standards for products assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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