ABSTRACT
Se comenta la actuación en Cuba de los representantes viajeros de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana de 1923 a 1952, como paso previo de la aplicación del principio de zonificación sanitaria. Se destaca la labor principalmente de los doctores John D. Long, Maurice A. Roe y John R. Murdock. Se destaca que desde la creación de la Oficina de Zona II de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, con sede en México DF, el 26 de agosto de 1952, Cuba formó parte de ella junto a México, Haití y República Dominicana. Se describen brevemente, los programas llevados a cabo hasta 1965 en que se nombró al primer representante permanente en La Habana
Comments are made on the performance of the traveling representatives of the Health Pan American Organization in Cuba from 1923 to 1952 as a previous step to the application of the principle of health zoning. It is stressed the work done by doctors John D. Long, Maurice A. Roe and Hohn R. Murdock. It is underlined that since the establishment of the Office of the Zone II of the Health Pan American Organization, with its headquarters in Mexico FD, on August 26, 1952, Cuba was part of it together with Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The programs implemented until 1965 when the first permanent representative to Havana was appointed, are briefly described.