Abstract

DELGADO GARCIA, Gregorio  and  DELGADO RODRIGUEZ, Ana M. Cuba en la Zona II de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, México DF. Educ Med Super [online]. 2003, vol.17, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0864-2141.

Comments are made on the performance of the traveling representatives of the Health Pan American Organization in Cuba from 1923 to 1952 as a previous step to the application of the principle of health zoning. It is stressed the work done by doctors John D. Long, Maurice A. Roe and Hohn R. Murdock. It is underlined that since the establishment of the Office of the Zone II of the Health Pan American Organization, with its headquarters in Mexico FD, on August 26, 1952, Cuba was part of it together with Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The programs implemented until 1965 when the first permanent representative to Havana was appointed, are briefly described.

Keywords : PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION [history]; CUBA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH [history].