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

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 dev...

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Hauptverfasser: Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, María Eugenia Galiana-Sánchez, Angela Cremades Monerris
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz 2013-12-01
Schriftenreihe:História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
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Online Zugang:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702013000401605&lng=en&tlng=en