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‘A Sick, Weak, and Ignorant People’: Public Health Education and Prevention in Rural Colombia, 1930–1940
Author(s) -
JALIL HANNI
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12739
Subject(s) - sanitation , poverty , blame , rhetoric , state (computer science) , misfortune , public health , economic growth , government (linguistics) , political science , social determinants of health , health care , sociology , development economics , medicine , economics , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , algorithm , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , computer science , perspective (graphical)
This article analyses Salud y Sanidad (Health and Sanitation), a government journal edited in 1930s Colombia. It examines the state's model of public health, which proposed education and prevention as strategies to guarantee the success of its programmes. It argues that despite the journal's more progressive approaches, editors and contributors reproduced stereotypes about Colombia's rural inhabitants that contradicted state rhetoric and showed the limits of public health models that do not address the underlying social inequities that drive the propagation of poverty and disease in rural areas, and that ultimately continued to blame victims for their illness and misfortune