Abstract

BILLOROU IMAZ, María José. "Healthy children towards the progress in La Pampa". Policies for the protection of children's health in the National Territory of La Pampa in the first half of the 20th century. Hist. Caribe [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.31, pp.45-84. ISSN 0122-8803.  https://doi.org/10.15648/hc.31.2017.3.

This paper aims at analyzing the concrete impact of health and welfare policies conceived at the national level for the protection of children in an area of the Argentinean interior, La Pampa. The creation of institutions to protect certain sectors, considered vulnerable, children and mothers, allow to study the scope and limits of state actions, especially for the case of the National Territory of La Pampa. The Censuses, Governor's Memoirs, Memoirs of the Maternity and Childhood Directorate, the Medical Press, and the Maternal and Child Health Center staff records show a network of actors and practices that constitute the institutional structure of child care nationally and locally.

Keywords : Social policies; Maternal and child protection; State; La Pampa.

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