Intersectoriality and community participation: paradigm of Public Health in Cuba

Abstract

The Cuban Public Health shows a clear commitment to facilitate coordinated intervention in other sectors and society. The health system confers on other sectors the power and freedom of action sufficient to detect and face jointly with the society the problems related to health. Active community and social participation is achieved, where human beings and families are subjects and objects of the health system, being the approach to the community a principle that has favored the integrating character and the obtaining of results of health and well-being. We work on perfecting intersectorality as an essential technology to preserve and generate health in the population, achieve higher public health goals and improve the quality of its practice. It is convenient to state considerations about the process of insertion of intersectorality in Cuban Public Health, and its contributions.