%0 Journal Article
%T La cuantificaci¨®n demogr¨¢fica y epidemiol¨®gica en el higienismo balear, 1850-1930
%A Pujadas-Mora
%A Joana-Maria
%J Dynamis
%D 2012
%I Universidad de Granada, Unversitat Aut¨°noma de Barcelona
%R 10.4321/S0211-95362012000100008
%X at the end of the 19th century, social medicine promoted the use of quantification as a means to evaluate the health status of populations. in majorca, hygienists such as the physicians enric fajarn¨¦s, bernat riera, antoni mayol and emili darder and the civil engineer eusebi estada sought a better understanding of health status by considering the population growth, the demographic and epidemiological profile and the influence of weather on mortality. these calculations showed that the balearic population had a good health status in comparison to the population of mainland spain, although less so in the international context. these results were explained by the benevolence of the insular climate, a factor that would also guarantee the success of the public health reforms proposed.
%K quantification
%K health status
%K population growth
%K demographic and epidemiological profile
%K 19th and 20th centuries.
%U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0211-95362012000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en