Introduction:

The administration, direction, government or management arises from the first moment in which the human being had to carry out actions that exceed their physical, intellectual capacity or both. Historically, the public administration has been a bad example of an efficient institution, not it could be said that attempts to organize their work with the idea of ​​doing things well have been lacking.

Objective:

To describe the theoretical and methodological foundations, trends and transformations of public administration and its specific development in the field of public health.

Development:

A review of the scientific-technical literature was carried out, which included: specialized articles; reports, programs and guides of scientific societies; summaries of scientific congresses and study commissions; government and state documents; specialized university sites including study programs; thesis; courses and webinars.

Conclusions:

The public administration is the one that creates strategic, tactical and operational conditions so that the successive functions of organization, direction and control are conceived in a rational way and constitute among all the harmonic way in which the events are supposed to occur.

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