[The social transformations observed in a family with retarded children].
A deep educational work was carried out with a family presenting generalized retardation in most of its members, with very deficient socioeconomic and hygiene conditions and a child with retardation of organic cause, main point of disorders occurring at his home and neighborhood. Transformations were reached in this family by means of field visits, specialized medical care and the aid of the community revolutionary masses; life level was improved, reaching a higher development of all its members who were incorporated to social life. Valuable benefit rendered by social medicine and importance of the new model of primary care to the family, and within such model main role played by the nurse, as well as the aid given by the community mass organizations, was demonstrated.
Hernández Sánchez
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Morán Pérez
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Guevara Couto
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D003462:Cuba; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000451:nursing*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Transformaciones sociales observadas en una familia con niños retrasados.