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Hist. ciênc. saúde-Manguinhos ; 24(4): 1089-1106, out.-dez. 2017. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: biblio-892569

ABSTRACT

This article examines anti-treponematoses work as part of US occupation public health policy in Haiti, a unique event in the history of international health. Yaws was highly prevalent in Haiti, but occupation doctors initially ignored it because of its close association with syphilis and stigmas attached to sexually transmitted disease. This changed when C.S. Butler asserted that yaws was "innocent" and that the two diseases should therefore be considered as one. Treatment increased as an anti-treponematoses campaign was now believed to hold great benefits for the occupation's paternalist and strategic aims, even though it ultimately failed. This work reflected Haiti's status as a public health "laboratory" which affected Haitian medicine for years to come and significantly influenced future campaigns aimed at disease eradication.


Este artigo investiga o trabalho anti-treponêmico como parte da política norte-americana de saúde pública na ocupação do Haiti, evento inédito na história da saúde internacional. Era alta a incidência da bouba no Haiti, mas médicos da ocupação a ignoravam por ser parecida com a sífilis e pelos estigmas da doença sexualmente transmitida. A situação mudou quando C.S. Butler afirmou que a bouba era "inocente" e que as duas doenças deveriam ser consideradas uma. Surgiram mais tratamentos com uma campanha anti-treponêmica que trazia benefícios aos objetivos paternalistas e estratégicos da ocupação, apesar do seu fracasso final. Esse trabalho ilustra o Haiti como "laboratório" de saúde pública, o que afetou a medicina haitiana por anos e influenciou campanhas futuras para erradicar a doença.


Subject(s)
Humans , History, 20th Century , Yaws/history , Syphilis/history , Public Health/history , Racism/history , Arsenic/history , Arsenic/therapeutic use , United States , Warfare , Yaws/prevention & control , Yaws/drug therapy , Syphilis/drug therapy , Communicable Disease Control/history , Diagnosis, Differential , Disease Eradication/history , Haiti , Laboratories/history
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Rio de Janeiro; Fiocruz; 2013. 99 p.
Monography in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-714044

ABSTRACT

O ano era 1956. Parcelas expressivas das populações pobres do interior padeciam de uma doença infecciosa que atingia pele, ossos e cartilagens, provocando deformidades. Era a bouba, causada por uma bactéria e hoje pouco conhecida mesmo entre médicos e profissionais de saúde. Naquela época, porém, representava um dos entraves à integração do sertão com o litoral e ao avanço do país. Defendia-se, pois, a importância das novas tecnologias médicas para curar aqueles doentes e torná-los trabalhadores aptos à agricultura modernizada. Eram os tempos do nacional-desenvolvimentismo. Esta história, que revela os meandros da saúde pública brasileira na década de 1950, em especial durante o governo de Juscelino Kubitscheck, está esmiuçada neste livro, fruto da premiada dissertação de mestrado do autor. Ele problematiza conceitos como os de controle e erradicação de doenças, e demonstra os limites de uma nova tecnologia biomédica diante da persistência dos determinantes sociais de uma enfermidade, como a pobreza e a fome.


Subject(s)
History, 19th Century , Yaws/history , Yaws/prevention & control , Yaws/therapy , Endemic Diseases/history , Hygiene , Public Health/history , Brazil
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Rio de Janeiro; Editora Fiocruz; 2013. 99 p. ilus, tab, graf.
Monography in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-711510

ABSTRACT

O ano era 1956. Parcelas expressivas das populações pobres do interior padeciam de uma doença infecciosa que atingia pele, ossos e cartilagens, provocando deformidades. Era a bouba, causada por uma bactéria e hoje pouco conhecida mesmo entre médicos e profissionais de saúde. Naquela época, porém, representava um dos entraves à integração do sertão com o litoral e ao avanço do país. Defendia-se, pois, a importância das novas tecnologias médicas para curar aqueles doentes e torná-los trabalhadores aptos à agricultura modernizada. Eram os tempos do nacional-desenvolvimentismo. Esta história – que revela os meandros da saúde pública brasileira na década de 1950, em especial durante o governo de Juscelino Kubitscheck – está esmiuçada neste livro, fruto da premiada dissertação de mestrado do autor. Ele problematiza conceitos como os de controle e erradicação de doenças, e demonstra os limites de uma nova tecnologia biomédica diante da persistência dos determinantes sociais de uma enfermidade – como a pobreza e a fome


Subject(s)
Humans , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Yaws/history , Yaws/prevention & control , Yaws/therapy , Endemic Diseases/history , Hygiene/history , Nutritional Sciences , Health Policy/history , Immunization Programs/history , Health Promotion/history , Public Health/history , Rural Health/history
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Rio de Janeiro; s.n; 2009. 139 p. tab, ilus.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-558182

ABSTRACT

A dissertação tem por objetivo apresentar as medidas para controle e erradicação da bouba ocorridas no Brasil no período entre 1956 e 1961. O Programa de Erradicação da bouba -com seu método de injeções únicas de penicilina - percorreu em campanha itinerante os estados do nordeste e de Minas Gerais em seus primeiros cinco anos. Durante as atividades da campanha nas principais áreas endêmicas do país emergiram também outras questões relacionadas à alimentação, pobreza e condições de vida das populações do interior. O trabalho ressalta como uma campanha para a erradicação de uma endemia rural estruturada em torno de uma “bala mágica” – a penicilina injetável – se defrontou com os quadros de fome e desnutrição no interior do país, problemas que, a princípio, estavam fora de suas atribuições.


The dissertation presents the measures for control and eradication of yawsoccurred in Brazil between 1956 and 1961. The Program for the Eradication of yaws - with its method of an unique injection of penicillin – was developed as a campaign in Minas Gerais and some states of the Northeast Brazil in its first five years. During the campaign's activities in the main endemic areas of the country other issues emerged such as food, poverty and living conditions of countryside's population. The text emphasizes how a campaign structured around a "magic bullet" - the injectable penicillin - faced the reality of hunger and malnutrition, problems that, inthe beginning, were outside of their duties.


Subject(s)
Yaws/history , Yaws/prevention & control , Yaws/therapy , History of Medicine , Public Health/history , Brazil
5.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 59-65
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-34605

ABSTRACT

The present status of yaws in Papua New Guinea cannot be determined because of the lack of data. Because yaws was deemed under control as a result of the nationwide total mass treatment campaign in the late 1950s and limited regional effort in the late 1970s, the health department lost interest in yaws and pursued other diseases. Individual reports from certain areas of Papua New Guinea have provided the only information on yaws since 1978. These reports concentrated on outbreaks on Karkar Island in the Madang Province and indicated the possibility of a recurrence of yaws. It was not until early 1984, when further reports became available from other provinces in the country, that the national health department renewed its interest in yaws. Monthly reports are currently being collected from hospitals, health centres, and aid posts throughout the country. This effort was started in 1984, however, and no conclusions are available. The initiation of a nationwide survey seems inevitable at this stage. For this to be made possible, capital and appropriate manpower are needed.


Subject(s)
Humans , Papua New Guinea , Public Health Administration , Yaws/prevention & control
6.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 14-8
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-34424
7.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 49-58
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-36095
8.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 66-9
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-33465
9.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 8-13
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-33328
10.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 84-8
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-33318
11.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 70-7
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-33313
12.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 3-7
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-33158
13.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 78-83
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-32896

ABSTRACT

Recent advances in treponemal research have increased our understanding of the pathogenesis and host response to treponemal infection was well as the antigenic structure of the pathogenic and nonpathogenic treponemes. Although these new methodologies are currently limited to research laboratories, the new findings may ultimately have practical applications to the control of the treponematoses. It is reasonable to expect that reagents for the identification of pathogenic treponemes (vs. non-pathogens) will be commercially available in the next three years. The field application of these reagents may be limited and specimens may need to be sent to regional or reference laboratories for evaluation. Similarly, the detection of specific treponemal IgM antibody may be limited to regional or reference laboratories. This does not preclude the utility of these tests, however, in epidemiologic surveys for determination of disease prevalence before and after treatment programmes, such surveys comprise the heart of any disease control programme.


Subject(s)
Humans , Population Surveillance , Serologic Tests/methods , Yaws/prevention & control
14.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 1-2
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-32695
15.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 42-8
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-32568
16.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 35-41
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-31715
17.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1986 Dec; 17(4 Suppl): 19-34
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-31654
18.
J Indian Med Assoc ; 1952 Nov; 22(2): 67-71
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-98049
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