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Commemorative medal — International Health Conference, Havana 1983 ("Salud para Todos")
Object/Artifact
Round silvery-gray metal commemorative medal (table medal), struck in relief on both faces with a raised rim. One face shows a relief map of the island of Cuba across the center field, with a curved legend above and below. The other face shows a World Health Organization–style emblem at center — a single-serpent staff (Rod of Asclepius) superimposed on a gridded globe, flanked by two laurel branches curving up from a crossed base — with curved legends above and below. Surfaces are toned with scattered dark spotting and minor handling marks; no loop or mount.
Commemorative medal — International Health Conference, Havana 1983 ("Salud para Todos")
Commemorative medal — International Health Conference, Havana 1983 ("Salud para Todos") - Image 2
Commemorative medal — International Health Conference, Havana 1983 ("Salud para Todos") - Image 3
Commemorative medal — International Health Conference, Havana 1983 ("Salud para Todos") - Image 4
2025.1.192
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
1983
1980s
Maker: Not identified from the object; no mintmark, engraver's signature, or issuing-bank legend is present. Presumably struck by the Cuban state mint (Casa de Moneda de Cuba) for the conference — tentative, unmarked.
Map face: "SALUD PARA TODOS" (curved, upper field) / "25 AÑOS DE EXPERIENCIA CUBANA" (curved, lower field). Emblem face: "CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL" (curved, upper field) / "HABANA · 1983" (curved, lower field), with a WHO-style serpent-staff-and-globe emblem within laurel. No denomination, mintmark, or engraver's mark visible.
Materials: Silvery-gray base metal, consistent with a nickel or cupronickel alloy (tentative — not tested). Recommend measuring diameter/weight directly. Technique: Die-struck (minted), bas-relief on both faces.
Good
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition
Salud para todos
The medal commemorates an international health conference held in Havana in 1983, themed around the WHO/PAHO "Salud para Todos" ("Health for All") strategy. That global goal — "Health for All by the year 2000" — originated at the 1978 Alma-Ata Conference; 1983 is the year Cuba publicly claimed to have met its principal targets, framing the medal's "25 años de experiencia cubana" as roughly a quarter-century of the post-1959 Cuban health system. The reverse uses the WHO emblem (serpent-entwined staff over a globe), here within a laurel wreath.