Download PDF by Dr. Norman I. Maldonado: On Health In Puerto Rico

By Dr. Norman I. Maldonado

ISBN-10: 0847711277

ISBN-13: 9780847711277

This selection of columns, released within the San Juan famous person through the years, by means of the celebrated hematologist and previous president of the Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Norman Maldonado, chronicles the advance of public guidelines on future health in Puerto Rico. Maldonado, a former chancellor of the scientific Sciences Campus of the UPR, provides a chain of biographical sketches at the major protagonists within the improvement of healthcare in Puerto Rico. each one column bargains short and pertinent feedback on all of the pros lined and their value within the improvement of the associations that help public healthcare at the island. the gathering additionally offers a contextualized point of view of the wellbeing and fitness reform all started within the last years of the 20th century.
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Much of this background additionally has a really own and anecdotal concentration. i'm a physician within the box of hematology, a made from the college of Puerto Rico university of drugs as a scholar, resident, fellow and professor. i used to be additionally chancellor of the UPR clinical Sciences Campus for 8 years and later served as president of the complete college of Puerto Rico process for an additional seven years. within the Nineteen Seventies I served the municipal executive of San Juan as director of San Juan urban health facility and the Puerto Rico govt as undersecretary of future health in control of public health and wellbeing facilities and hospitals in the course of the island. i've been an consultant to the govt. on healthiness care matters through the years, and a tremendous player within the well-being Reform of 1993.

All those reports have brought me to a few of the significant and minor gamers in Puerto Rico’s well-being care tale. i'm pleased with the various contributions –those which are hugely noticeable and others really unsung– of Puerto Rico’s medical professionals, scientists and future health care pros who built a contemporary clinical mecca in this small Caribbean island. this can be an unfinished tale, as a few of my columns date again many years, and others haven't but been researched. however it is a begin to an ongoing saga.

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