Memories of Public Health in Cienfuegos: Neocolonial Stage

Abstract

With the beginning of the North American intervention and the establishment of the pseudo-republic, the health services un- derwent changes in conception and orientation in the island. During the Spanish government, the health care was based on reli- gious nursing centers. Other state entities and the service provided by private doctors were modified by a medicine focused on specialties such as epidemiology. This research which is entitled: “Memories of Public Health in Cienfuegos: Neocolonial stage, was aimed at characterizing the health situation in Cienfuegos during the neocolonial stage, as well as identifying those places in Cienfuegos that, at present, are related to the history of health in the province during the neocolonial republic. To conduct the study, 10 bibliographical references taken from different sources of information were used. We concluded that there were no actions of greater importance in the field of health during the establishment of the Republic in 1902 compared to the year 1998; everything occurred under a constitutional framework in a context of economically limited services: Hospital La Caridad was named Luis Perna Civil Hospital in the governmental sector, while different types of polarized entities and services in the urban sector were diversified by private medicine