Campanha de saneamento e profilaxia rural no Amazonas, 1920-1923

Abstract

The creation of the National Department of Public Health in 1920 was a landmark in relation to the organization of public services in the area of health in Brazil, amongst the strategies created for the promotion of health, was the creation of the Sanitation Administration and Agricultural Prophylaxis whose objective was to develop projects of action mainly against the agricultural endemic diseases that devastated the population. The present research has as its general objective to study the development of the Social Program of Sanitation and Agricultural Prophylaxis in the Amazon, and its development for the sanitary service of the state from the period of 1920 to 1923, whose executive arm had been the Campaigns Sanitations and Agricultural Prophylaxis disease.