Ramón Castejón

Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche | UMH · Department of Public Health, History of Science and Gynecology

This article analyzes maternity in Social Assistance based on the demographic policy of the first Franco regime, influenced by eugenic thought. Considering that during the Franco regime the control of women's bodies became an essential tool of its biopolitics, the presence of eugenic ideas and practices around the health problem of syphilis in preg...

Purpose To analyze the determinants that influence the health-related quality of life of people living with HIV in Alicante (Spain). Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted, which recruited 214 Spanish-speaking participants over 18 years of age living with HIV from an outpatient consulting office of the infectious diseases in a hospital in A...

Introducción: La Web 2.0 ofrece importantes oportunidades cuando se busca información sobre salud. Objetivo: Analizar la tendencia de las búsquedas que se realizan en España a través de Google sobre sífilis y gonorrea y su relación con los datos de enfermedad. Metodología: Los datos se obtuvieron de Google Trends y del Boletín Epidemiológico Semana...

Resumen Objetivo Analizar los determinantes que influyen en la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud de las personas que viven con el VIH en Alicante (España). Métodos Se realizó un estudio descriptivo transversal que reclutó a 214 participantes castellanoparlantes mayores de 18 años con VIH atendidos en consultas externas de la Unidad de Enfe...

Dentro del ámbito sanitario, la evolución de la Web 2.0 también se ha hecho patente, y con el paso de los años se observa un cambio hacia una sociedad cada vez más informada sobre salud en Internet, hasta el punto de adoptar nuevos términos para nuestro vocabulario como el de eSalud. La llegada de las redes sociales (RR. SS.) digitales -considerada...

Durante la década de 1970 se constituyó en España un movimiento social por la planificación familiar. En este proceso confluyeron intereses sociales, políticos y científico-sanitarios cuyos resultados fueron la despenalización de los anticonceptivos, prohibidos en España desde 1941, y el desarrollo de infraestructuras que facilitaran su accesibilid...

Infographic is a combination of images and texts, in order to communicate information visually to facilitate its transmission. It is an effective tool for the learning of health science, being the design process of this which becomes more beneficial from the teaching point of view. The display of information, through infographics, is a key factor...

Background: The internet is now the primary source of information that young people use to get information on issues related to sex, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections. Objective: The goal of the research was to review the scientific literature related to the use of Web 2.0 tools as opposed to other strategies in the prevention o...

During the last years of Francoism and Spain's transition to democracy, a social movement emerged to promote the legalization and mainstreaming of contraceptive methods (prohibited in Spain since 1941). One of the key features of this process was the interaction of social, political, scientific, and healthcare interests pursued by participants in t...

Esta obra pretende aportar nuevas perspectivas al conocimiento de la políticas sanitarias durante los años del despegue económico del franquismo y la transición democrática española . En un contexto de intensos cambios económicos, primero, y políticos y sociales, después, las políticas sanitarias tuvieron que afrontar nuevas realidades y problemas...

Objective: To synthesise the scientific evidence concerning barriers to health care access faced by migrants. We sought to critically analyse this evidence with a view to guiding policies. Design: A systematic review methodology was used to identify systematic and scoping reviews which quantitatively or qualitatively analysed data from primary s...

This article examines three works by Gregorio Marañón, published for the first time in 1926 under the epigraph Tres ensayos sobre la vida sexual [Three essays on sexual life]. These essays had a huge impact and they were republished several times. The aim of this paper is to help situate Marañon’s medical and scientific views, as expressed in these...

Una de las motivaciones que alienta el interés por la historia de la medicina es proporcionar, a través del análisis del pasado, acercamientos novedosos a la interpretación del presente lo que no siempre tiene la adecuada difusión más allá del mundo académico, ni alcanza los ámbitos en los que se adoptan estrategias y actividades en materia de polí...

Enfermedades venéreas en la España del último tercio del siglo XIX. Una aproximación a los fundamentos morales de la higiene pública SUMARIO 1 .-Introducción. 2.-E1 carácter moral de la enfermedad. 3.-El impacto de las enferme-dades venéreas. 4.-Las enfermedades venéreas y la prostitución: El control higiénico. 5.-La organización del control. 5.1.-...

This article studies the medical responses at the end of the nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth century towards individualized preventive strategies against venereal disease contagion. The article goes on to look at debates which emerged on the subject of sexual abstention and the use of barrier and chemical methods of prophylaxis.

The aim of this paper is to analyze a sample of domestic economy handbooks in order to assess the popularization of correct food and feeding practices in Spain between 1847 and 1950. With this contribution, we wish to evaluate another factor that would influence the Spanish food transition. We are aware that this is a very indirect source, given th...

In Spain in the last third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the concern to reduce infant mortality led to a health campaign to deal with the problem. In turn, the campaign found its professional expression in childcare. The regulation of food for the very young was one of its aims. Childcare discourse maintaine...

This paper analyses Spanish films on infant protection belonging to the first third of XXth Century. We place our contribution in the context of the study of the means of institutional health education used in Spain from that date until 1936, the year of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The first third of the past century was the period when...

En este artículo pretendemos analizar el uso del cartelismo sanitario en el contexto de las campañas de educación sanitaria que las instituciones sanitarias españolas diseñaron para difundir conocimientos científico-técnicos, influir en las actitudes e intentar modificar comportamientos en la población española. Nos centramos en los carteles relaci...

This article studies the medical answers during the late 19th century and the first third of the 20^th century in relation to the venereal problem. It attempts to disclose the way these answers regulated and defined sexual behaviour and roles by analyzing the discourses and practices of doctors dealing with venereal diseases. It will expl...

La salud y los dispositivos asistenciales y sanitarios creados para ocuparse de promocionarla, prevenir y enfrentar la enfermedad tratando de curarla o al menos aliviarla, constituyen hoy día elementos clave para el entendimiento de toda sociedad, especialmenre en el caso de las sociedades post-industriales. Es difícil encontrar un aspecto de la vi...

Ramón Castejón Bolea Univ. Granada

The quality of prenatal care offered in health centers (HC) and in the hospital (H) have been compared. Two samples were evaluated. One consisted of 476 pregnant women seen in HC and another of 213 who were seen in H. Five out of the 22 selected markers did not show differences in both levels (date of delivery; weight gain in g/week; measurement of...