Abstract

ALVAREZ CORTES, Julia Tamara et al. Impact of the economic competence of the specialist in general comprehensive medicine on the Cuban social and economic development. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.9, pp. 1298-1305. ISSN 1029-3019.

Health Economy, with its emergence in developed countries, constitutes a discipline which is being developed in the last years as a scientific specialty and whose study object is the decisions making in the services system and sanitary programs, from an economic point of view; that is why it is important that the specialist in general comprehensive medicine acquires an appropriate economic competence for the precise fulfilment of his functions, essentially in the activities of health promotion, diseases prevention, early diagnosis, opportune treatment and rehabilitation, with the aim of achieving a huger social progress

Keywords : health economy; specialist in general comprehensive medicine; economic competence; primary health care.

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