Education for public health in Puerto Rico: 1940-1942

ABSTRACT

Formal training in public health in Puerto Rico began in 1940 when a degree-granting Division of Public Health was established within the existing School of Tropical Medicine. The division was sponsored by five institutions - the Puerto Rico Departament of Health, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Children's Bureau, the University of Puerto Rico, and Columbia University - each with had a different concept of tha aims, scope and character of the training. Conflicts relating to these issues were exacerbated by managerial and budgetary problems, and the program began fitfully and with great difficulties. As a results, the training which was planned in 1940 and launched in 1941 was scrapped or rede-signed the following year (AU)