Sanitary and living conditions in the Mosquitia (second part) from Christianization to the Cuban revolution 1849-1960
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Health, Health service, Public health, Quality of life, Social research, Traditional medicineAbstract
Toe present paper is based in a more ample work (Dejour 88, a first segment of This work was published in Wani 17) that covers the sanitary history and the history of the health care strategies the Mosquito Coast from the arrival of the europeai1S u.ntil 1986. The segment here summarized, and somehow updated, has as pourpose to sketch the conditions of Health of the native population in place in the northeastem part of Nicaragua (present RAAN) in a particular historical period: From the arrival of the moravian missionaires, whose interaction with the inhabitants of the Coast this plane will both, provide better íníormatíon and affect the traditionals ways of dealing with health problerns; until the event of the Cuban revolution wich will afect the ways of intervention in every plane of the Us and national goverrunent in the region (1850 to 1960). To approach this topic the following indicators were retained: the prevalent diseases and the accesibility to the different health services existing, when there was ai1y.
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