Eugenesia y política sanitaria en el VII Congreso Médico Nacional en México en 1922, a principios del gobierno de Álvaro Obregón

From the beginning of his mandate, the health policy of the government of Alvaro Obregón (1920-1924) was facedby a lack of laws and regulations, which were awaiting preparation and/or authorization to implement the health modernization promoted by the 1917 Constituent Congress. The beginning of his government coincided with the end of World War I, which favored the political and commercial expansion of the United States and the spread of eugenicist thought to Latin America. The influence of eugenicist approaches on the health policies of Obregón is observed in the proposals advanced by speakers at the VII National Medical Congress to analyze the medical and social problems inherited from previous regimes. Finding medical- health solutions had the dual purpose of improving the conditions under which most of the population survived and legitimizing the post-revolutionary state.