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OPERATION MIRACLE: A NEW VISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH?
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Operation Miracle is an international Cuban public health campaign that seeks to restore vision to 6 million people in the underdeveloped and developing world by 2016. Beginning in 2004, it has grown considerably and today Cuban doctors have provided over 2 million vision restoration operations (at no cost to patients) in some 60 ophthalmological screening centres in 35 countries. Moreover, this programme has been successful outside the traditional boundaries of western development ideals (including the concept of development as a linear process and the need for societal wealth before health). These 'classic' ideals are routinely used in development practice, but they are highly rigid and limiting. Operation Miracle, by contrast, has followed no conceivable classic model, nor has it employed any typical development rationale – yet it has been particularly successful. This article will use the case study of Operation Miracle to highlight the overall limiting and restrictive nature of classic development ideology.
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United Nations Statistical Division 2010b