Problèmes de santé et causes de décès infantiles en Espagne, 1900-1935

Abstract

Referring to risk model used in epidemiology, the research proposed the use of a holistic framework for the understanding and explain the relations that existed between health levels and causes of death in Spanish children between 1900 and 1935. In the first place, to analyse the evolution of some of the main causes of infant deaths. Secondly, will attempt to explain some of the main trends in infant mortality through the analysis of certain disease frameworks, including both primary or etiological éléments and together with socioeconomic and cultural context. In the opinion of Spanish hygienists and paediatricians of the period, these disease frameworks (feeding practices, popular attitudes to children's health, as in the case of teething, etc.) were responsible for the high levels of infant morbidity and mortality.