Resumen de La nueva salud pública en España

Carlos Álvarez-Dardet Díaz, Concepción Colomer Revuelta

• español

  La historia de la salud pública en España ha estado jalonada de desarrollos muy interesantes, a veces de carácter pionero a nivel mundial que han estado muy limitados por nuestra propia historia de falta de libertades. Sin embargo, esta tendencia parece haber cambiado en los últimos años, el inicio de la estrategia de salud para todos coincide con el inicio de la transición en España, y eso ha hecho posible que muchas de sus ideas se hayan reflejado en desarrollos legislativos como la Ley General de Sanidad, y en iniciativas, como la creación de escuelas de salud pública en varias comunidades autónomas.

• English

  The paper sees the history of Spanish public health as marked by many interesting developments, some of which were pioneer experiences for their times but nipped in the bud by that wintry lack of civic and public liberties that likewise blighted so much of that which was best in her history. Recent years have shown an appreciable change in this as in so much else. The paper tells of how, the drive for universal public health has gone along in step with the transitional advances of the period and many of its ideas have been taken up and embodied in legislation such as The General Public Health Act and other similar though lesser iniciatives such as the setting up of schools of public health in the Autonomous Regions' respective areas of influence.