Environment and health with respect to a poverty-related disease: the epidemiology of trachoma in Spain, 1925-1941

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Title: Environment and health with respect to a poverty-related disease: the epidemiology of trachoma in Spain, 1925-1941
Other Titles: Ambiente e saúde em doença relacionada a pobreza: a epidemiologia do tracoma na Espanha, 1925-1941
Authors: Bernabeu-Mestre, Josep | Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia | Cremades Monerris, Ángela
Research Group/s: Grupo Balmis de Investigación en Salud Comunitaria e Historia de la Ciencia
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Enfermería Comunitaria, Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública e Historia de la Ciencia
Keywords: Trachoma | Environmental health | Spain (1925-1941) | Public health
Knowledge Area: Historia de la Ciencia | Enfermería
Issue Date: Dec-2013
Publisher: Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Citation: História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos. 2013, 20(4): 1605-1619. doi:10.1590/S0104-597020130005000010
Abstract: Trachoma currently represents one of the three main causes of ‘avoidable' blindness and reaches intolerable dimensions in many developing countries. It was endemic in many regions of eastern Spain until well into the twentieth century. The aim of this paper is to analyze the epidemiological development of this disease in contemporary Spain; to examine its determining factors, particularly environmental and sanitary/health factors, and, finally, to study the health care, environmental and socio-economic measures that led to its control and eradication. We believe that the historical approach not only highlights the role of environmental factors in the development of trachoma, but may also aid in understanding the current epidemiology of trachoma. | O tracoma representa hoje uma das três principais causas de cegueira ‘evitável' e tem alcance inaceitável em muitos países em desenvolvimento. Era doença endêmica em muitas regiões da Espanha oriental século XX adentro. O objetivo do presente artigo é analisar o desenvolvimento epidemiológico da doença na Espanha contemporânea; examinar seus fatores determinantes, especialmente os ambientais e sanitários, e, finalmente, estudar as medidas de assistência médica, socioeconômicas e ambientais que levaram a seu controle e erradicação. Acredita-se que a abordagem histórica revela a importância dos fatores ambientais no desenvolvimento do tracoma e ajuda a compreender o perfil epidemiológico atual da doença.
Sponsor: Part of this study was carried out within the framework of the coordinated research project entitled “The struggle against undernutrition in contemporary Spain and the international context (1874-1975)”. HAR2009-13504-C02-01; “International Health and the Transfer of Scientific Knowledge, Europe 1900-1975”, HAR2011-23233 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Prometeo/2009/122. Generalitat Valenciana http://www.grupogadea.org/.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/39006
ISSN: 0104-5970 | 1678-4758 (Online)
DOI: 10.1590/S0104-597020130005000010
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Rights: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Peer Review: si
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-597020130005000010
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