Abstract

The Venezuelan Public Health Magazine (RVSP) is now four years old, with eight numbers to its credit, accumulating a total of 67 articles, for an average of 8 per number; it has been a hard but comforting work, which is appreciated when seeing its fruits, where only, to mention to the technological platform of the UCLA (http://bibvirtual.ucla.edu.ve/RVSP/), they are presented more than 133,000 entries or queries, where the most widely read article has been the contamination of cabbage enteroparasitaria, with 45,000 entries, or to mention another platform such as ISSUU, where only the second number has 1937 readings, plus 28,178 impressions, according to the origin of the consultant, in order of frequency, appear Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, or in the case of IMBIOMED (Mexican Index of Latin American Biomedical Journals), with more than 6000 entries, auditable. All this is very pleasing because the visibility of the journal is increasing every day, which allows thousands of users who rely on RVSP to be a safe source of knowledge in Public Health.

Abstract

Working conditions, housing and housing including all basic services, schooling, education, free time, citizen security, food and civil liberties, together constitute the conditions for people to enjoy a minimum level of Health. Likewise, equitable access to health care must be the primary objective of any health policy, so studying these elements has been a public health concern as a discipline for many years.  

Abstract

The object of the present work of documentary and bibliographic research is to reconstruct the academic and administrative process carried out by Jose Maria Vargas at the Central University in Caracas during the period 1827-1829 upon the implementation of the Decree on the reorganization of this University signed by Simón Bolívar on June 24, 1827.  In this set of changes, the creation of the Anatomy Chair at the university is examined as part of the curriculum reform for the formation of the doctor.  The importance of the Chair is emphasized because it constituted the essential unit that organized the university teaching work to grant the academic degrees of Senior, Bachelor, Master and Doctor in the professions of Medicine, Laws and Theology by then.   In this order of ideas, aspects of the University reform including the issue of public health are identified as part of the preparation of the doctor. Written evidence is left of this documentary review about the projection and scope of the lectures conducted by Vargas when showing partial data of his disciples and with them cognitive and social institutionalization of Medicine in Venezuela during the nineteenth century.