In Peru since mid 1990s it has there been a rapid increase in the offering of Postgraduate Programmes in Public Health and related fie1ds. Taking into aecount that a significant number of professionals has graduated from these programmes, it is mandatory to state the question of whether can we talk about an intellectual collectivity in this knowledge field or cannot. The analysis of the components that integrate an intellectual collectivity shows that in the academical field of our country, Public Health expresses a peculiar way of pre-modem assimilation of the positivist discourse. Therefore, public health has never been assimilated into a practice and an institutional collective memory that allow it to set up as a modern discourse. The stage of the last decade confiriris that the core of the problem ís of cultural nature. The premodern culture of our academical institutions makes that...

The present assay focuses on the role of the master Carlos Lanfranco La Hoz on building the cultural imaginary of our Faculty. We address his outstanding performance within the various events of our institutional history. We state that Lanfranco is the expression of a new medical culture within the San Fernando Faculty of Medicine, being himself a mandatory reference for a community in reconstruction and through the search of an identity. We address the values which led him, such as tolerance, academic excellence, humanistic vocation, as well as teaching with the aim of building a universitary community. We propose that while the Faculty becomes a community (Universitas) able to accomplish Lanfranco’s goals, we must consider him the most important reference of the second half of the century, in order to reach a new medical culture, based upon the best of our scientific and universitary...

Hermilio Valdizán is undoubtedly one of the most important personalities of Peruvian medicine of all time. This doctor San Fernandino of provincial origin in a very short time managed to build the cultural building on which the Peruvian medicine of the twentieth century would be built. We hold that this project was the construction of a new framework of Peruvian social and cultural modernization from medicine, which is explained through the various milestones in the academic and public life of Valdizán and is expressed in the magazine that he founded , the Annals of the Faculty.

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Objective. To analyze the changes in the density of human resources in health (DHRH), in the Ministry of Health at the regional and provincial level in Peru, in order to describe the response of the health system on this component during the COVID-19 epidemic. Methods. Descriptivestudy based on the analysis of the INFORHUS national database of the Ministry of Health. To calculate the DHRH, the health personnel registered in the INFORHUS database were considered as the numerator and the population assigned to the Seguro Integral de Salud - SIS as the denominator. Health personnel who died and were still registered, and personnel diagnosed with COVID-19 by rapid or molecular testing during the months considered in the analysis, were excluded. The percentage changes of DHRH between the months of april to august 2020 were analyzed at the regional and provincial level in Peru. Results. In the...

Introduction. The objective of the study is to contribute with a new perspective about the peruvian health system, based on the production of public goods in health. Methods. For this purpose, we calculated the per capita average of health encounters produced by the peruvian health system at the national, regional and provincial levels. Information was collected on the number of medical encounters, registered at the open data sources of the National Health Superintendence (SUSALUD), the Public Health Insurance (SIS), and the Health Social Insurance (EsSalud) for year 2019. Results. The national average of medical encounters per capita was 1.8, with a great variability of values at the regional level (2.9 to 0.8). In the case of the provinces, a first upper quartile was found, which group 50 provinces with values between 5.52 and 1.75 and concentrate 55% of the Peruvian population and 71....

This study is an academic historical investigation that analyzes the work of the San Marcos University researcher Carlos Gutiérrez- Noriega in the debates about the health consequences of the coca consumption habit in the peruvian people. The context of the discussions during that period of time are reviewed, as well as, the systematic studies of the research developed by Gutiérrez- Noriega and his associates about the coca consumption in the andean people in Peru and the cocaine effects by experimental observations. The evidence about the coca harmful effects produced by the author is examined in the debates and political decisions about coca consumption in national and international policy.

This article presents testimonial and bibliographic information about the history of the “Service Cooperative Inter-American of Public Health” (SCISP) in Peru during the period between 1942-1962, in the context of the implementation of the “Good Neighbor Policy” from the United States Government in its relations with Latin American. The first purpose of this article is to discuss the scope and limitations of technification and modernization public health programs which were developed by SCISP in our country; and second, discuss the importance of their training, and professional development programs in the development of a new generation of sanitarians who consensualmously defined in 1962, the doctrinal principles of the national public health, rooted in local realities, which it was influential in the official public health policy in the next&nb...

First published in 1918, Anales de la Facultad de Medicina is the official journal of San Fernando Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Following some years of absence, Anales was again published in 1995, under the direction of Dean José Piscoya Arbañil. Most of the Editorial Staff was later included in the new Editorial Committee in 2000 under the direction of José Pacheco Romero. Permanence, punctuality, visibility and impact distinguished the 15 years of administration of the journal despite editorial and financing limitations. Anales has received support from all the Faculty of Medicine Deans and the University Research Vice-Rector. It has obtained important indizations, and has digitized all journal articles and their respective doi since 1918, allowing more visits, article discharges and citations.