Servicios integrados de salud
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s.d.1967
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The problems of nutrition call for the adoption of varied techniques and the services of not only highly specialized professional and technical personnel, but also the continued cooperation of health personnel at all levels. No correctly formulated public health program should exclude nutrition activities, because these become far less effective when they are conducted separately. Specialized nutrition personnel should therefore become an important part of the health team, and the training of nutritionists and dieticians in the doctrine and structure of general health services is of the utmost importance Of the two approaches to health programs, the vertical and the horizontal, it would seem more advisable to use the horizontal because it avoids fragmentation in specific campaigns and offers the advantage of permanent integration at all levels There should be integration at both the technical and the administrative levels, and that will require a single command, the establishment of the central, regional and local levels, all of them under personnel supervision and service evaluation The training of any kind of personnel whether at the technical or the auxiliary level, is a lengthy and costly process. However, the importance of such training to the Latin American health programs must be stressed because experience has shown the highly useful results that can be achieved at every level ...(AU)
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Integrated Health Services
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