Is Spanish public health sinking?

Is Ligula intestinalis Really a Probable Threat for Public Health?

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[Spanish public health professionals and the General Law of Public Health].

Departamento de Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Alicante, España CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), España CISAL-Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, España Instituto de Investigación Hospital del Mar IMIM, Barcelona, España Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de...

What is public health?

At the time of the formation of the World Health Organization in 1946, one of its first achievements was to create a brilliant new definition of health: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”1 This definition has lasted 7 decades without modification as it reflects the multidimensional nature of health. If it ha...

Public Health Is People

"Spanish flu, or whatever it is...": The paradox of public health in a time of crisis.

Without the modern tools of surveillance, or the ability to develop a national vaccination campaign, local health departments were often on their own in preparing and combating the spread of the disease during the influenza epidemic of 1918. This article reviews the state of public health before the epidemic, seeking to place the reaction to the disease in the context of the evolution of public...