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El texto alude al contenido de la geografía como ciencia, sus espacios y de la existencia en la superficie del planeta del animal humano. Analiza como este animal humano, el hombre, a pesar de su inteligencia realiza prácticas no inteligentes entre ellas, guerras, terrorismo, adicciones y su acción depredadora y contaminante. Estas últimas han sido objeto de estudio por la geografía, que ha avanzado hasta desarrollar la geografía humana y la geografía de la salud. Destaca la existencia y vigencia de esta última, que se ocupa, entre otros, de los cambios en los patrones de fecundidad, migraciones, urbanismo patogénico, barrios insalubres, carencia de agua potable, inseguridad alimentaria y vial, todos riesgos y agresiones a la salud que el biologicista ve convertirse en epidemias de obesidad, estrés, violencia y desigualdades. En la preparación de los salubristas, debe incluirse el estudio de estos problemas desde la visión más amplia que proporciona la geografía de la salud(AU)
The text refers to the contents of Geography as a science, its areas and the existence in the planet of the human animal. It analyzes how this human animal (man), although its intelligence carry out non smart things as wars, terrorism, addictions with their consequent predatory and pollutant actions. These last have been studied by Geography as a science developing specialties as Human Geography and Health's Geography. It is remarkable the existence and validity of Health's Geography that deals with the changes in fertility patterns, migrations, pathogenic urbanism, unhealthy neighborhoods, lack of drinkable water, food and road insecurity, among others that represent risks and aggressions to health and that the specialist in this field analyzes as potential outbreaks of obesity, stress, violence and inequality. In the training of health workers should be included the study of this problems from the wide view that Health's Geography offers(AU)
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Humanos , Saúde , Geografia Médica , GeografiaRESUMO
Those of us who worked in Cuba's countryside-even for a short time-still carry "rural doctor" as a badge of honor and pride. A little more than 50 years ago, in 1960, I was one of the founders of Cuba's Rural Medical Service (RMS). It was the first of several public health programs implemented under the new revolutionary government and grew out of an initiative by our class of medical graduates, voting overwhelmingly to devote a period after graduation to serving in the island's rural and remote regions. There had never been anything like the RMS in those forgotten lands: free services for everyone, close-at-hand, and offered by qualified physicians who provided both preventive and curative care at any time of day or night, also dispensing free medications.