Social aspects related to imported malaria in Latin América

Authors

  • Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales Cátedra de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti; Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. Sección de Inmunoparasitología, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Felix Pifano; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. Instituto Experimental José Witremundo Torrealba, Núcleo Universitario Rafael Rangel, Universidad de Los Andes. Trujillo, Venezuela. Médico.
  • María A. Lopez-Zambrano Unidad de Políticas Públicas, Universidad Simón Bolívar. Caracas, Venezuela. Socióloga.
  • Rosane Harter-Griep Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ). Río de Janeiro, Brasil. Socióloga.
  • Luz M. Vilca-Yengle Sociedad Científica de San Fernando, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú. Servicio de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Hospital Universitario Vall d´Hebron. Barcelona, España. Médico.
  • Rocío Cárdenas Instituto Experimental José Witremundo Torrealba, Núcleo Universitario Rafael Rangel, Universidad de Los Andes. Trujillo, Venezuela. Instituto Departamental de Salud de Norte de Santander. Cúcuta, Colombia. Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas (INBIOM), Universidad de Pamplona. Pamplona, Colombia. Protozoóloga.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2008.252.1265

Keywords:

Malaria, Internal migration, International migration, Social conditions, Latin America

Abstract

Malaria continues to be a world public health problem, not only in those endemic countries but also now beginning to be a medical dilemma in distant countries for the arrival of imported cases. Now, even when in terms of the conventional medical disciplines many clinical and epidemiological studies, as well case reports, have been published, the social aspects, apparently obvious given the fact imported malaria is related to human population migration, have been not furtherly studied in regard to this phenomena. For these reasons in the current review, the social aspects related with the imported malaria phenomena with emphasis in the epidemiological context of Latin America are analyzed.

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Published

2008-06-30

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Review

How to Cite

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Rodríguez-Morales AJ, Lopez-Zambrano MA, Harter-Griep R, Vilca-Yengle LM, Cárdenas R. Social aspects related to imported malaria in Latin América. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica [Internet]. 2008 Jun. 30 [cited 2024 Mar. 28];25(2). Available from: https://rpmesp.ins.gob.pe/index.php/rpmesp/article/view/1265

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