Desarrollo de la Medicina Social en la escuela de medicina de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The School of Medicine is one of the first at the University of Cuenca to be founded; however the development of social medicine has been gradually gaining momentum since the sixties. It is a little investigated and reported it. The teaching of social medicine is related to the changes made in the practice of medicine with the city and the arrival of foreign-trained teachers. They taught Hygiene and Public Health. Social Medicine starts from a charity whose aim was the good death of people and not focus on healing; then develop the privatization of health services, state intervention and municipalities also occurs in the health and social area, there is then the disappearance of the Charitable Medicine by religious and medical faculty, to emerge a trend towards a health system based on the concept of health as a commodity exists Later a primary focus in medicine covering prevention, promotion and development of primary health care.