Revista médica de Chile
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Revista médica de Chile · Aug 1994
Historical Article[School of public health: 50 years serving medical education and health].
This is the speech pronounced by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, during the academic act that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Chilean Public Health School endowment. The School could have been an independent entity, but its founders decided to ascribe it to the Faculty of Medicine. In this way, the doctrine of hygiene, social and preventive medicine could be preached in a better way to professors and students. ⋯ At the present time, medical education and public health are faced to new realities, consequent to economical, political and social changes. The educational program at the Faculty of Medicine are changing to adapt them to these changes. The Public Health School will have to contribute with new ideas to improve health care of our population that aspires to a efficacious, equitable, humane and economically feasible health system.
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Revista médica de Chile · Aug 1994
Historical Article[Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the School of Public Health of the University of Chile].
The joined initiative of the University of Chile, the Health institutions, the Bacteriological Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation support allowed the creation of the School of Public Health. A group of skilled and talented young specialists gave rise to the School, as an expression of the need to refurbish the medical care of the forties. The aim of the School was to communicate the scientific basis of sanitary practice, to study national problems and to group people that can contribute to improve the health status of the country. ⋯ It is difficult to make adequate decisions at the present time, due to the complexity of Chilean health situation, that is going through an epidemiological and demographic transition. A systematic effort to investigate and to train people in public health and health administration is mandatory. These are the principal tasks of the School, that maintains its fifty years tradition left by its founders.