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J Bernabeu Mestre

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PubMed1994

[Public health within the framework of local administration: the Provincial Health Institute of Alicante (1924-1936)].

The development of the Provincial Institute of Hygiene of Alicante is described. In the first part the different national regulations that sanctioned the constitution and the successive reorganizations of the Provincial Institutes of Hygiene are reviewed. In the second part, archival sources are used to reconstruct the life of the life of the Provincial Institute of Hygiene, from its predecessor, the Provincial Health Brigade, to the outbreak of the Civil War. We study both the first period, when administration of the Institute was dependent on the County Council, and the later period during the Second Republic, when it was run by a municipal mancommunity.

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PubMed1993

[Diagnostic expressions and causes of death. Some reflections on their utilization in the demographic analysis of mortality].

The author discusses "the main difficulties that arise from the use of the diagnostical expressions used to report [causes of death].... From an interdisciplinary point of view, the work stresses the need to study in depth the causal explanation of mortality. It favours the creation of interpretative schemes showing the causal associations, direct or otherwise, between the determinants of good or bad health and the mortality problems as revealed in the death causes." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)

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[Health transition in Spain from 1900 to 1990].

BACKGROUND: The concept of health transition is intended to define, from a plural point of view, the changes in health conditions that have contributed to a decrease in mortality associated with the demographic transition. The purpose of the study is to analyse the health transition in Spain during this century (1900-1990). METHOD: The study of the different components of the health transition (epidemiological transition, risk transition and health care transition) has been based on historical series relating to Natural Population Changes. Annual Statistics and Housing Census Reports. RESULTS: Overall Mortality and Child Mortality rates have tended to decrease over the entire period: overall mortality has decreased by 70%, while child mortality has dropped by 96%. Life expectancy has increased by 42 years from 1900 (35) to 1990 (77), which in relative terms represents an increase of 120%. There has been a 95% decrease in infectious disease-related deaths and a 134% increase in non-infectious disease-related deaths. It can therefore be said that the epidemiological transition in Spain concluded in the fifties with the end of the previous pattern, mainly characterised by a high mortality rate (especially with respect to children), when the main cause of death was due to infectious diseases, then giving way to a new situation in which mortality rates dropped considerably and non-infectious diseases became the main cause of death (the turning point was in 1945). CONCLUSIONS: The new epidemiological trend that took place over the period studied appears to be the result of improved sanitary infrastructure and increased spending as well as better medical services, however also includes new health problems related to working conditions, massive urban development (particularly as of the sixties) and changes in lifestyle.

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