Venezuela had the highest number of human malaria cases in Latin American before 1936. During 1891–1920,malaria was endemic to >600,000 km2 of this country; malaria death rates led to major population decreases during 1891–1920. No pathogen, including the influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic, caused more deaths than malaria during 1905–1945. Early reports of malaria eradication in Vene...

BACKGROUND The proportion of low birthweight babies (LBW: 1500-2499 g) in Japan decreased steadily from 1950 to the 1970s. However, since then it has started to increase consistently, the reason for which has not been discussed in detail. METHODS Trends of birthweight and the two known factors for low birthweight (maternal smoking, and pre-pregnancy weight) were analysed with vital statistics...

Abstract This article explores synergies between Hungarian critical sociology in the 1960–70s and documentary films made Balázs Béla Stúdió same period. It treats rationalization of social phenomena as a battle ground for meaning claims that both representatives sciences filmmakers, on one hand, called upon deficient mechanisms inner contradictions existing socialism and, other pointed to discr...