Un plan para combatir la tuberculosis en Córdoba en la década del '30

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08/2008
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Universidad Nacional de Lanus
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Salud Colectiva
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1669-2381
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La tuberculosis representó, desde principios del siglo XX, un grave problema sanitario para la provincia de Córdoba: sus aires eran ponderados por los médicos de la Argentina, lo que generó un flujo importante de enfermos, especialmente a sus sierras y hacia la ciudad capital. A principios de la década del '30, a pesar de la caída en las tasas de mortalidad por tuberculosis, un grupo de tisiólogos que se habían formado en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, presentó un plan de lucha contra la tuberculosis. Si bien este plan nunca se concretó, en él se pueden apreciar las principales líneas de pensamiento acerca de las causas de la enfermedad y cómo combatirla. La percepción de la tuberculosis como una enfermedad social, la necesidad de aislar a los tuberculosos, la desconfianza hacia el Estado para llevar a cabo el combate contra la enfermedad, la necesidad de una inserción más allá de los planos académicos y hospitalarios y el hincapié en reforzar la lucha en la ciudad de Córdoba, fueron parte de un pensamiento de una especialidad que comenzaba a conformarse.
From the beginning of the XX century, tuberculosis posed a serious sanitary problem for the province of Córdoba: its climate was praised by doctors, consequently an important amount of sick people traveled to its mountains and its capital city. During the 1930s, and although mortality rates had decreased, a group of physicians, graduated from Córdoba University, presented a plan to combat tuberculosis. Although this plan was never implemented, it shows the main ideas about the causes of the illness and how to fight against it. The perception of tuberculosis as a social illness, the need to isolate the sick, the distrust towards the State as being unable to carry out the fight against this disease, the need for an insertion beyond academic and hospital areas, and the emphasis to reinforce the fight in Córdoba were part of a speciality which was just beginning.
From the beginning of the XX century, tuberculosis posed a serious sanitary problem for the province of Córdoba: its climate was praised by doctors, consequently an important amount of sick people traveled to its mountains and its capital city. During the 1930s, and although mortality rates had decreased, a group of physicians, graduated from Córdoba University, presented a plan to combat tuberculosis. Although this plan was never implemented, it shows the main ideas about the causes of the illness and how to fight against it. The perception of tuberculosis as a social illness, the need to isolate the sick, the distrust towards the State as being unable to carry out the fight against this disease, the need for an insertion beyond academic and hospital areas, and the emphasis to reinforce the fight in Córdoba were part of a speciality which was just beginning.
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