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Environment and Health with Respect to a Poverty-Related Disease: The Epidemiology of Trachoma in Spain, 1925--1941 (2013)

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Blindness Epidemiology Public health Disease and diseases Health care 20th century Spain

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Vilar Rodríguez, Margarita
Pons-Pons, Jerònia
Williams, Logan D. A.
Shin, Y. J.
Suzuki, Akihito
Steere-Williams, Jacob
Journals
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Social History of Medicine
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Medical History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Korean Journal of Medical History
Publishers
University of California, San Diego
University of Rochester Press
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Duke University Press
Harvard University
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Health care
Epidemiology
Medicine
Epidemics
People
Choe Ung-sok
Finlay, Carlos Juan
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Spain
Brazil
Argentina
Japan
South Asia
Guinea
Institutions
American College of Cardiology
United States. Food and Drug Administration
World Health Organization (WHO)
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