Abstract

LEMUS LAGO, Elia Rosa  and  PEREZ SANCHEZ, América Maritza. Social development through the model for the formation of the specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine in Cuba. Educ Med Super [online]. 2013, vol.27, n.3, pp.275-287. ISSN 0864-2141.

Cuban scientific and educational development was the consequence of a political decision of the government, indispensable way to achieve health development and social development in a socialist country, aspect that is dealt with in the present study through the relation existing between Social development and the model for the formation of the specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine in Cuba. In our country, the development of the human being constitutes the main social development. The idea of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz about the creation of the specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine and the family Doctor means equal opportunities to the access of health attention for the whole population. It is concluded that the model of the specialist in General Comprehensive Medicine is a result, in the medical practice, of the indissoluble link existing between state politics and population health politics.

Keywords : social development; specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine; family doctor; state politics.

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