dc.creatorLima, Nísia Trindade
dc.date2018-11-29T14:33:19Z
dc.date2018-11-29T14:33:19Z
dc.date2007
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T20:08:49Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T20:08:49Z
dc.identifierLIMA, Nísia Trindade. Public Health and Social Ideas in Modern Brazil. American Journal of Public Health, v. 97, n. 7, p. 1168-1177, July 2007.
dc.identifier0090-0036
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/30321
dc.identifier10.2105/AJPH.2003.036020
dc.identifier1541-0048
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8849679
dc.descriptionPublic health in Brazil achieved remarkable development at the turn of the 20th century thanks in part to physicians and social thinkers who made it central to their proposals for “modernizing” the country. Public health was more than a set of medical and technical measures; it was fundamental to the project of nation building. I trace the interplay between public health and social ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Physicians and social thinkers challenged the traditional belief that Brazil’s sociocultural and ethnic diversity was an obstacle to modernization, and they promoted public health as the best prescription for national unity. Public health ideas in developing countries such as Brazil may have a greater impact when they are intertwined with social thought and with the processes of nation building and construction of a modern society.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmerican Public Health Association
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectSocial Ideas
dc.subjectHistory of health
dc.titlePublic Health and Social Ideas in Modern Brazil
dc.typeArticle


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