Abstract

LOPEZ PINERO, José María. Francisco Gavaldá, Ahead of his Time in the Social Statistics Study of Bubonic Plague (1679). Rev. Esp. Salud Publica [online]. 2006, vol.80, n.3, pp.279-281. ISSN 2173-9110.

In 1651, Francisco Gavaldá (1618-1686) authored the first social statistics study on the bubonic plague which scourged western Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, specifically the plague having racked Valencia in 1647. Gavaldá was, in fact the first to study the plague not only statistically, but also from a social standpoint, denouncing the fact that it especially affected the poor, totally independently of the interests of the powerful.

Keywords : Infectious diseases; Public health; Spain.

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