Integración de la comunidad en los programas de salud

Abstract

This article contains a historic outline of the health and welfare work of the Mexican Government for the rural masses, from the time the missionaries arrived from Europe after the conquistadors up to the present time. Throughout this article the authors insist that health and welfare can be obtained only by working with the people, not for the people. The nub of the article is the postulate, now more and more accepted by health educators and public health workers, that the success of health programs depends on the effective, conscious, and sustained participation of members of the community to be benefited