State planning and the public health sector in Argentina 1946-1955

Successes, failures and contradictions

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ID5897387
AuthorsPeter Ro (0000-0003-2176-8978, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Peter Ross (0000-0002-5051-5382)
Year2007
Volume13
Issue2
Pages29-54
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Iberian and Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1326-0219 • E-ISSN: 2151-9668
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13260219.2007.10426865
OpenAlexW2080849426
LanguageEN
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During the Peronist period, 1946–1955, Argentine national public health authorities, under the energetic leadership of Dr Ramön Carrillo, attempted to provide for the physical, mental, and social health of the population by means of the establishment of a unified, centralised state health system. This project was a major departure from the pluralist unplanned model of the past, and the various systems that followed the overthrow of Peron, most immediately the pluralist model based on decentralised planning that was initiated in 1957.1 The Carrillo project represents the closest correspondence between the nation state and the delivery of health services in Argentine history. However, as Juan Llovet has pointed out, the state is heterogeneous, multifaceted, and plagued by internal tensions. 2 This paper examines some of those tensions with regard to the public health sector during the Peronist period, and seeks to clarify why the Argentine state was unable to construct a fully centralised, unified health system, or to consolidate the advances made in this area of public welfare

Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Political science · Population · Public health · Public sector · Social Welfare · Sociology · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration · Public Health and Social Inequalities

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