Abstract

BELDARRAIN CHAPLE, Enrique. The anti-tuberculosis struggle during the first decade of the revolutionary public health period. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.2, pp. 192-213. ISSN 0864-3466.

This paper presented the study of the anti-tuberculosis struggle in Cuba in the 1959-1969 period, when a program to face this disease was organized for the first time; the various changes made, the main activities to find out the scope of the problem and the first results of the implementation of this program were also analyzed. Likewise, reference was made to those people who worked, designed and encouraged the necessary activities to attain this goal and who were in charge of the formation of the subsequent generations for the control of tuberculosis in Cuba.

Keywords : Tuberculosis; Cuba; history; anti-tuberculosis fight.

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