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...
Main Authors: | Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, María Eugenia Galiana-Sánchez, Angela Cremades Monerris |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
2013-12-01
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Series: | História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-59702013000401605&lng=en&tlng=en |
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