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Indonesia's Panacea: 1959 Model

Research Article| December 01 1959 Indonesia's Panacea: 1959 Model Irene Tinker, Irene Tinker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Millidge Walker Millidge Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1959) 28 (12): 177–182. https://doi.org/10.2307/3024292 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Irene Tinker, Millidge Walker; Indonesia's Panacea: 1959 Model. Far Eastern Survey 1 December 1959; 28 (12): 177–182. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3024292 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Public Health Organization in Mexico

SINCE the present Constitution of Mexico was enacted in 1917 public health in Mexico has been under the care of an autonomous institution, which is a part of the executive branch of the Federal Government. It is the Federal Department of Public Health and the National Council of Health. Its chief is a member of the Presidential Cabinet. This was the first step taken on becoming aware of the great vital public health problems which the nation has to solve. As health education of the public spread over the country and new demands for health activities came from every corner of the nation, there followed a progressive increase in the budgets to meet the ever increasing requirements for health. On the other hand, the rapid development of communications has opened the road to the propagation of infectious and parasitic diseases which before were restricted to certain zones, with the result that the ancient division between national and local problems has been broken down. Thus, although the supreme sanitary law, the Federal Sanitary Code, marks the division of activities for federal and local authorities, it also invests the Federal Department of Health with full authority to act when the health of the nation is in danger, or when there is a neglect of duty by a local government. The last federal Sanitary Code was en-