Open AccessHistoria de la salud publica en México: siglos XIX y XX
Author(s) -
Ana Cecilia Rodríguez de Romo,
Martha Eugenia Rodríguez
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
história, ciências, saúde-manguinhos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1678-4758
pISSN - 0104-5970
DOI - 10.1590/s0104-59701998000200002
Subject(s) - public health , politics , state (computer science) , health care , social security , political science , economic history , public health care , humanities , history , health policy , art , law , nursing , medicine , algorithm , computer science
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its growth accompanied the country's political and social changes. In the early half of the nineteenth century, care for the sick depended in part on religious charity. So-called public beneficial care was later introduced and consolidated under president Benito Juárez (1856) and then continued under Porfirio Díaz (1880-1910). The Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) brought the notion that public-health assistance is the State's social responsibility. Health care and social security are now both part of so-called "institutional medicine," which also encompasses research and teaching on public health. This analysis of public-health care in Mexico examines the question of diseases and their control, the emergence of institutions, and the development of the concept of public health.