
handle: 10893/4187
Lo que hoy conocemos como servicios de salud es una ficción creada, talvez involuntariamente, con hondas repercusiones, más negativas que positivas para la salud. Hace unos 24 siglos, Esculapio dios de la medicina e Hygeia diosa de la higiene y la salud generaron una dicotomía entre enfermedad y salud que se mantiene hasta hoy. La substitución de los servicios de salud con servicios médicos comenzó confusamente a fines del siglo XIX. Pero fue en 1948 cuando el llamado Servicio Nacional de Salud inglés marcó un hito en el mundo y su modelo fue adoptado por muchos países, tergiversando el sentido de los verdaderos servicios de salud. Las consecuencias de esta ficción han sido nefastas. Es necesario llamar las cosas por su nombre para no engañar a la sociedad y corregir el grave desequilibrio entre los servicios de salud y los servicios médicos. Hygeia y Esculapio deben hermanarse. What we know today as Health Services is a fiction, perhaps shaped involuntarily, but with deep health repercussions, more negative than positive. About 24 centuries ago, Asclepius god of medicine and Hygeia goddess of hygiene and health, generated a dichotomy between disease and health that remains until today. The confusing substitution of Health Services with Medical Services began by the end of the XIX century. But it was in 1948 when the so called English National Health Service became a landmark in the world and its model was adopted by many countries, having distorted the true meaning of Health Services. The consequences of this fiction have been ominous. It is necessary to call things by its name not to deceive society and to correct the serious imbalance between Medical Services and Health Services. Hygeia and Asclepius must become a brotherhood.
Servicios de Protección de la Salud, Servicios de Medicina Preventiva, Servicios de Promoción de la salud, Servicios de salud, Medical Services, Preventive Medicine Services, servicios médicos, Health services, Health Promotion Services, Health Protection Service
Servicios de Protección de la Salud, Servicios de Medicina Preventiva, Servicios de Promoción de la salud, Servicios de salud, Medical Services, Preventive Medicine Services, servicios médicos, Health services, Health Promotion Services, Health Protection Service
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