International recommendations and local debates about the creation of the escuela de salud pública in buenos aires, 1958

Abstract

This article analyzes the conditions surrounding the emergence of the Escuela de Salud Pública at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in the late 1950s. It was designed to offer postgraduate academic training to doctors and professionals in biostatistics, health administration, hospital management, epidemiology and the social sciences within the framework of a “Diploma in Public Health.” This study situates the birth of the institution in the context of the recommendations and debates within various international agencies on medical education and health policy management in Latin America. Examining publications, conference proceedings and technical reports, it seeks to reconstruct these discussions and their echoes throughout Argentina in the 1950s.