Community STaR presents…
Doing more with less:
Observations about community development in Cuba
Can lessons learned from the Cuban experience
improve health disparities in Australia?
Speaker : Joan Silk
Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean Sea. Despite limited funding and supplies, Cuba’s adult and youth literacy rate stands at 100%, and it has consistently managed to keep its population of 11 million people healthy into old age with a health system recognized worldwide for its excellence and its efficiency.
Joan Silk visited Cuba in 1997 and again this year. Her presentation will draw on those experiences and reflect on what we can learn from the Cuba experience.
Joan Silk is a health worker with a special interest in the relationship between inequality and health, both on a community and an international level. She has worked in the printing, retail, hospitality and creative industries, as a secondary school teacher, a research assistant, and for the last 20 years as a health equity worker in various communities. She has a BA Honours in Economic History and Politics and a Diploma of Education.
- When : Friday, November 22, 2019
- Time : 10:30am – 11:30am
- Where : Miller Community Centre,
18A Woodward Crescent, Miller, NSW 2168 - RSVP by 18 November
- Register here via Eventbrite
- For more information, contact: E: Andrew.Reid@health.nsw.gov.au or T: 02 87389310
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