Ocupaciones de la salud en el territorio argentino: perspectivas a partir de los censos nacionales

Abstract

We have studied the growth and distribution of specific healthcare occupations in the Argentine territory starting from the first national population censuses. We show the complexity underlying those optimistic interpretations of the era that associated the growth in occupation with the progressive State consolidation and the ascending socioeconomic development of Argentina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We show the census values, focusing on differential situations that help explain the trajectories in the Argentine provinces. We consider socioeconomic cleavages, the presence of the State and the occupations consolidation processes.