Kleine Geschichte Kubas

Zeuske, Michael

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“…Cuba defines itself as a one-party democracy. Since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 the Cuban Communist Party guides the state [69,70]. Cuba was classified as a 'high human development' country in the Human Development Report 2019 [68].…”

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Mental health stigma and professional help-seeking attitudes a comparison between Cuba and Germany

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Globally the burden due to mental disorders is continuously increasing. Still, professional help-seeking behavior is not fully understood. To conceive cultural determinants of help-seeking is crucial to reduce personal and social costs of (untreated) mental disorders. The current study investigates mental health stigma and help-seeking attitudes in a Cuban (n = 195) and a German (n = 165) sample. In a questionnaire survey we asked for attitudes towards mental illness and professional help-seeking in the general Cuban and German populations. The cultural context was associated with mental health stigma and professional help-seeking attitudes. Interestingly, Cuban participants reported stronger mental health stigma and more willingness to seek help. In multiple hierarchical regression analyses, community attitudes towards the mentally ill significantly predicted help-seeking attitudes, especially in the Cuban sample. Only in the German sample, more negative individual beliefs about mental illness predicted more self-stigma on help-seeking. Beyond that, cultural context moderated the association between mental health stigma and help-seeking attitudes with a stronger association between the measures in the German sample. However, gender did not predict help-seeking attitudes and self-stigma on help-seeking and no interactions between community attitudes, cultural context, and gender were found in the prediction of help-seeking attitudes. Similarities and differences between the samples are discussed in the light of the cultural contexts and peculiarities of the current samples. Concluding, implications of the current findings are reviewed.

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“…It is still strongly rooted in its own unique traditions, political system, and its distinctive pattern of economic development. Cuba's culture was strongly influenced by Spanish colonization, and Cubans today identify as Latino (Zeuske, 2007;. The Cuban population (11.2 million citizens) is divided between 64% who identify as white Cubans, 27% who report mixed origin, and 9% who identify as black Cubans (Oficina Nacional de Estadı´sticas e Informacio´n (ONEI), 2014).…”

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Causal attribution for mental illness in Cuba: A thematic analysis

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Steinhäuser

Ruíz

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Transcult Psychiatry

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Explanatory models (EMs) for illness are highly relevant for patients, and they are also important for clinical diagnoses and treatment. EMs serve to capture patients' personal illness narratives and can help reveal how culture influences these narratives. While much research has aimed to understand EMs in the Western hemisphere, less research has been done on other cultures. Therefore, we investigated local causal attributions for mental illness in Cuba because of its particular history and political system. Although Cuban culture shares many values with Latin American cultures because of Spanish colonization, it is unique because of its socialist political and economic context, which might influence causal attributions. Thus, we developed a qualitative interview outline based on the Clinical Ethnographic Interview and administered interviews to 14 psychiatric patients in Havana. We conducted a thematic analysis to identify repeated patterns of meaning. Six patterns of causal attribution for mental illness were identified: (1) Personal shortcomings, (2) Family influences, (3) Excessive demands, (4) Cultural, economic, and political environment in Cuba, (5) Physical causes, and (6) Symptom-related explanations. In our sample, we found general and Cuba-specific patterns of causal attributions, whereby the Cuba-specific themes mainly locate the causes of mental illness outside the individual. These findings might be related to Cubans' socio-centric personal orientation, the cultural value of familismo and common daily experiences within socialist Cuban society. We discuss how the findings may be related to social stigma and help-seeking behavior.

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“…These provinces, the most densely populated ones, accounted for 50 per cent of the population according to the census of 1899. The fact that this part of the island was densely populated and urbanised, as well as being the residence place of most of the island’s elite who also owned the sugar industry (Report on the Census of Cuba 1899 and Zeuske 2002), may bias the human capital upwards. The census of 1899 indicates that literacy rates — a commonly used human capital measure — in the historical provinces of La Habana, Pinar del Rio and Matanzas are 53.1 per cent, 18.9 per cent and 34.8 per cent, respectively, altogether 4 per cent above the national average of 36 per cent 19 .…”

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“… 16 Asian workers, so-called «coolies», were imported in large numbers as contract labourers to work on the sugar plantations in Cuba in semi-slavery conditions, especially from 1848 on (Zeuske 2002). Large landowners wanted to replace African slaves by Asian and other contract workers for their fear of another «Haitian» slave revolution and because prices for slaves were high and rising. …”

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Skill Selectivity in Transatlantic Migration: The Case of Canary Islanders in Cuba

Juif

2015

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The skill composition of European migrants to the New World and their contribution to the human capital and institutional formation in destination countries are popular topics in economic history. This study assesses the skill composition of 19thcentury transatlantic migrants to Cuba. It finds that nearly half of the European immigrants originate from the Spanish province of the Canary Islands, which displays the lowest literacy and numeracy rates of Spain. Even within this province, those who left belonged to the least skilled section of the population. By promoting the influx of a cheap and poorly educated white workforce that replaced African slaves on their sugar estates, large landowners in Cuba contributed to the perpetuation of high economic, political and social inequality.

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Kleine Geschichte Kubas

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Mental health stigma and professional help-seeking attitudes a comparison between Cuba and Germany

Mental health stigma and professional help-seeking attitudes a comparison between Cuba and Germany

Causal attribution for mental illness in Cuba: A thematic analysis

Skill Selectivity in Transatlantic Migration: The Case of Canary Islanders in Cuba

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