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<journal-id>0036-3634</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Salud Pública de México]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Salud pública Méx]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0036-3634</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S0036-36342020000100114</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21149/10996</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La atención a la salud en Mesoamérica antes y después de 1519]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Health care in Mesoamerica before and after 1519]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Gómez-Dantés]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Octavio]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Frenk]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Julio]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Cuernavaca Morelos]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Miami  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ Miami]]></addr-line>
<country>EUA</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>62</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>114</fpage>
<lpage>117</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0036-36342020000100114&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0036-36342020000100114&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0036-36342020000100114&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen En este ensayo se discute la situación de la atención a la salud en Mesoamérica antes e inmediatamente después de 1519. En los primeros 50 años después de la Conquista, los españoles hicieron un uso muy extensivo de la medicina náhuatl. Sin embargo, con el tiempo, el ámbito de influencia de esta tradición se vio limitado debido a la rápida imposición de un sistema de atención muy diferente que poco aprovechó, entre otras cosas, la riqueza terapéutica de la medicina prehispánica.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This paper discusses the situation of healthcare in Mesoamerica before and immediately after 1519. In the first 50 years after the Conquest, the Spaniards made extensive use of Nahuatl medicine. However, the influence of this medical tradition was limited due to the rapid imposition of a very different medical system which took little advantage of, among other things, the therapeutic wealth of pre-Hispanic healing traditions.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Mesoamérica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[healthcare]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[traditional medicine]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[healing plants]]></kwd>
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