Epidemiological transition.

Authors

  • Ariel Delgado Ramos DIRECCIÓN PROVINCIAL DE SALUD. MATANZAS
  • Fredy Fagundo Montesinos DIRECCIÓN PROVINCIAL DE SALUD. MATANZAS
  • Ernesto López Letucet DIRECCIÓN PROVINCIAL DE SALUD. MATANZAS
  • Cecilia Valdés Santana DIRECCIÓN PROVINCIAL DE SALUD. MATANZAS
  • Idalmis Salabert Tortoló DIRECCIÓN PROVINCIAL DE SALUD. MATANZAS

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TRANSICIÓN DE LA SALUD, AMÉRICAS

Abstract

We will analyses the situation of health in The America using the notion of epidemic transition as conductive concept of the analysis summarizing the origins and meaning of this concept and presenting a general panoramic of the conditions of health in the region, as well as the implication of the empiric analysis for the future formulation of the theory of the epidemic transition. The understanding of the phenomenon’s that you/they accompany to the epidemic transition is of vital importance so that the countries can plan their politicians of health keeping in mind that these they respond to the characteristics of the social economic formation and the economic pattern continued by most of the countries of Latin America, where the neoliberalism is the tendency that prevails induced by the government from the United States of America. Most of the countries of the area experience a deep transition at the present time where the decrease of the infectious and parasitic illnesses has been substantial. Whichever it is the result, it is clear that as much as adult is the complexity epidemic adult it will be the necessity that these they are reflected in a concordant system of attention of health. The epidemic transition in the region already presents characteristic own that could the development of modalities of supply of services more adapted to the realities peculiar of the region.

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Delgado Ramos A, Fagundo Montesinos F, López Letucet E, Valdés Santana C, Salabert Tortoló I. Epidemiological transition. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Feb. 12 [cited 2025 Jan. 9];25(1):36-42. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/72

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