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Public Health and Nutrition after the SPANISH CIVIL WAR An Intervention by the Rockefeller Foundation

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  • Del Cura, I.
  • Huertas, R.

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We describe a nutritional intervention by the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division in Spain after the Spanish Civil War, delineating the relationships between the technicians sent by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Spanish health authorities. We analyze reports of the nutritional situation in Spain in the early 1940s and the design and outcomes of a nutrition survey conducted in a district of Madrid by American and Spanish nutritionists. This nutritional survey, which was based on food intake interviews and was complemented with anthropometric measurements, clinical examinations, and blood tests, found several symptoms and signs of malnutrition. The Rockefeller Foundation's nutritional research was an important historical precedent for later studies made in emergency situations or armed confl icts. Similar surveys have been carried out in the last several decades by distinguished academic departments of public health and epidemiology and by humanitarian aid agencies.

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  • Del Cura, I. & Huertas, R., 2009. "Public Health and Nutrition after the SPANISH CIVIL WAR An Intervention by the Rockefeller Foundation," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 99(10), pages 1772-1779.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2007.124875_7
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.124875
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    1. Cámara, Antonio D. & Puche, Javier & Martínez-Carrión, José Miguel, 2021. "Assessing the effects of autarchic policies on the biological well-being: Analysis of deviations in cohort male height in the Valencian Community (Spain) during Francoist regime," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 273(C).

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