Estado actual de la homeopatía en Cuba

• Main Author: Nelson Steegers Martin
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Editorial Ciencias Médicas 1997-06-01
• Series: Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral
• Subjects: TERAPEUTICA HOMEOPATICA; HOMEOPATIA; ENFERMEDAD CRONICA; ATENCION PRIMARIA DE SALUD; CUBA; HOMEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS; HOMEOPATHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
• Online Access: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0864-21251997000300011

El conocimiento de la homeopatía en nuestro país es exiguo, a pesar del reconocido desarrollo de la medicina cubana en todos sus órdenes y de la existencia de esta modalidad terapéutica en gran cantidad de países incluso en los más industrializados del mundo. No es hasta 1992 que el Ministerio de Salud Pública decidió incorporar la homeopatía a las llamadas "terapéuticas alternativas". A partir de entonces ha existido un desarrollo acelerado de esta entidad que es desconocido por la casi totalidad de nuestros profesionales de la salud.<br>The knowledge of homeopathy in our country is exiguous, in spite of the recognized development of Cuban medicine in all its spheres and of the existance of this therapeutic modality in a lot of countries, even in the most industrialized. It is not until 1992 that the Ministry of Public Health decided to incorporate homeopathy to the socalled "alternative therapeutics". Since then, there has been an accelerated development of this entity that is unknown by most of our health professionals. It is made a synthesis on the present status of homeopathy in Cuba starting from the arduous work carried out by the "Dr. Juan Antiga" Cuban Group of Homeopathy as a leading group of this discipline, taking into account its history, composition, structure, functioning, and its results in the assistance, scientific and teaching activities.