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Objetivo: Revisar la importancia de las funciones esenciales de la salud pública (FESP) rescatando su rol para el ejercicio de la rectoría en salud y la respuesta del Estado para preservar la salud y el bienestar de toda la población. Material y métodos. Se revisaron las diferentes versiones sobre las FESP publicadas inicialmente por el Centro de Control de Enfermedades (CDC), por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) y la versión de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) del año 2000, para finalmente presentar la nueva versión de las FESP lanzadas por la OPS en diciembre de 2020.

[Changes in perceived health in war-displaced population, Ayacucho, Peru: 1980-2004].

The current study aims to show the individual and familiar changes in health patterns suffered by indigenous communities which were displaced from their Andean communities to Ayacucho city, Peru, for war-related political reasons, during the period of 1980 and 2004. Information about health self-perception was collected from displaced farmers living in Ayacucho city, and analyzed by using ethnographic research tools in: origin communities; during the displaced process to town, and during the integration process once the war was over in 1993. It was found out that these poor Andean communities had traditionally lived under severe social exclusion conditions, and were characterized by low access to health services and high childhood and maternal mortality rates.