EVIDENCE: CRONICA

TECHNIQUE IN ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT IN HEALTH

PRESENTED BY: INGRID CAROLINA REYES

JOHANA MARCELA CALDERON ROA

INGLES
 Dr. David Tejada de Rivero

Dr. David Tejada de Rivero (1929-2018) was a Peruvian doctor

who during his professional career held important positions in
his country and internationally. Between 1974 and 1985, Dr. Tejada de
Rivero held the position of Deputy Director General of the World Health
Organization (WHO) based in Geneva, Switzerland. During that period,
Dr. Tejada led the position of General Coordinator of the Alma Mata
International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in Kazakhstan
on September 6, 1978. The Conference was attended by 3,000
delegates from 134 countries. and 67 representatives of international
organizations from around the world. The event, organized by WHO
and UNICEF, attracted worldwide attention, and its result was the
Declaration of Alma-Mata, which defines the importance and urgency
of improving primary health care as a strategy to raise the quality of
health in the world.
As a result of the Declaration, Dr. Tejada de Rivero worked tirelessly to
achieve the implementation of the primary health care strategy in the
world.
He was manager of negotiations in order to obtain financing for health
projects in the most vulnerable countries of the five continents, in order
to combat and face diseases and epidemics. He tirelessly advocated
for governments to implement a better primary care mechanism,
strengthening local and national health systems. During his tenure at
the WHO, important agreements were signed with international
organizations for the execution of programs in the areas of nutrition,
prevention of respiratory and diarrheal diseases. In 1992 he was a
representative of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health
Organization (PAHO / WHO), based in the city of Brasilia, Brazil.
Back in Perú, he was twice appointed Minister of Health in the periods
1985 and 1989. During his management in Perú, he received important
donations through both technical and financial international
cooperation to improve primary care in health systems. nationals of the
country.
Dr. David Tejada de Rivero graduated as a physician-surgeon from the
Universidad Mayor de San Marcos School of Medicine in 1957. He
completed a master's degree in public health at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He carried out teaching activities and gave
seminars and conferences related to the subject of primary care in
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Sri-Lanka, Sweden and Thailand
among a long list of countries.
During his professional career, Dr. Tejada de Rivero received
important awards and decorations. In 2008 he received the decoration
from the Government of Kazakhstan for his excellent work in
commemorating 30 years of the Declaration of Alma Ata.
The Pan American Health Organization awarded the Public Health
Hero Award to this outstanding Peruvian physician on March 2, 2012 in
Lima, Perú, for his outstanding contributions to the development and
advancement of Primary Health Care worldwide.
Dr. David Tejada de Rivero died on November 3, 2018 in Lima, Perú,
at the age of 89.