State and health in Northwest Argentina. State Responses and Health Policies during the Spanish Flu Epidemic in Jujuy (1918-1921)
This article analyses the state policies characteristics against the Spanish Influenza epidemic in Jujuy, province with sick and deceased high numbers. It aims to examine the policies implemented against health crisis. In the work presented here, we examine the diseases that affected to loc...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) IDES /CONICET
2024
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| Sumario: | This article analyses the state policies characteristics against the Spanish Influenza epidemic in Jujuy, province with sick and deceased high numbers. It aims to examine the policies implemented against health crisis. In the work presented here, we examine the diseases that affected to local population and existing health administrative agencies when the Spanish Influenza's entry into the province, the new agencies created by the authorities and those complementary policies implemented during the epidemic. We pay attention to province political changes context, characterized by the Unión Cívica Radical governments access, whit a more inclined intention to attend popular demands and rethink the state role within the health field. Our research highlights the particularities of the health, social, political situation and of process of greater intervention state in the health field in this province extreme north of Argentina at 20th century beginning. |
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