Abstract

Eduardo Liceaga y la participación mexicana en la fundación de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 1998, vol.24, n.1, pp. 11-18. ISSN 1561-3127.

The participation of mexicans in all the ativities that -in the First Pan-American International Sanitary Convention, led to the creation of the International Sanitary Office- which with the lapse of time, would become the Pan-American Organization of Health, is reported. The work of Dr. Eduardo Liceaga, mexican eminent improver of health, president of the Superior Council of Salubrity in Mexico, and vice president of the first management Council of the International Sanitary Office, was emphasized. among the antecedents, the integration to the American Association of Public Salubrity, Scientifical Corporation which was operated en the United States, from 1872, first of the Cadanian Domain, then, of Mexico, and finally of Cuba, is mentioned Doctors Liceaga and Carlos J. Finlay, presided over the American Association of Public Salubrity.

Keywords : PAN-AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION; MEXICO.

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