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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 28, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):732-736; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi083
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Reprints and Reflections

Medical and Social Reality in Chile

Salvador Allende

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   Second part. Life circumstances in the working class
 
I. Wages
Any reliable study of the medical and social reality in Chile has to take into account the most important causal factors. Among them, wage takes a predominant place as its amount and how it is expended determines the standard of living for wage-dependent people.

The relation between wage level and salubriousness has already been proven in several sociomedical studies, in our country and elsewhere. Alfonso Campos Menendez, in his book ‘Hacia una politica preventiva de los Seguros Sociales’ (Towards a preventive policy of Social Security), an excellent work that constitutes one of the most complete studies on this subject, gives special importance to the crucial influence of the conditions of life on people's health. On these grounds, he demands, in addition to medical and preventive measures, measures of a more general type that help reinforce these measures, integrating them into a plan directed at revitalizing the human condition. In this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

II. Diet
III. Clothing
Clothing, morbidity, and mortality

   Third part. The medical problems
 
I. Mother–child
Infant mortality
V. Addictions
Alcoholism
Causes of alcohol intoxication in Chile
Effects of alcoholism and alcohol intoxication

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