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- Title
Epidemias en Cuba durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII.
- Authors
Roque Pérez, Lázaro; Alfonso Alfonso, Yaissel; Torres Álvarez, Luis Ángel; de Alejo Plaín, Anisbel Pérez; García López, Ileana
- Abstract
Introduction: the process of Spanish conquest and colonization in the sixteenth century enabled the ethnic and cultural interrelation between Europeans and aborigines. This cultural shock caused that the existing epidemiological panorama in Cuba changed radically and epidemics appeared that affected notably the colonial life. Objective: to explain the epidemics that occurred in Cuba during the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. Method: a literature and documentary review of different books and articles related to the diseases that caused epidemics in Cuba during the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. Theoretical and empirical methods were used. Among the first: the historical-logical, the inductivedeductive and analysis and synthesis; and between the second ones: the documentary review. Conclusions: the conquest and colonization brought about great changes in the Cuban epidemiological situation as the introduction of new diseases, including smallpox, measles and yellow fever, which caused numerous epidemics during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with high rates of mortality, constituting a contributing factor to the extermination of the aboriginal population. The deplorable hygienic situation of the colony, its climate, the port activity and the population growth were fundamental causal factors of the epidemics during these centuries.
- Publication
Universidad Médica Pinareña, 2018, Vol 14, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
1990-7990
- Publication type
Article