Resumo

CACERES DIEGUEZ, Aglae  e  CRUZ BARANDA, Silvia Sofía. Historical progress of the primary health care. Significance in the need of a professional self-improvement transforming population`s life styles. MEDISAN [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.9, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

The historical progress of the primary health care and the postgraduate education in this context referring to theory, methodology, and practice was analyzed, with the aim of contributing to the improvement of the professional self-improvement in correspondence to the teaching, health care, and investigative development, the professional self-improvement and the political will to social transformation. The information sources used were documents by the Ministry of Public Health in Cuba, as well as documents and written materials published from the National School of Public Health about this topic.

Palavras-chave : professional self-improvement; postgraduate education; primary health care.