El instituto de salubridad y enfermedades tropicales de México: 1939-1965
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Abstract
In 1939, Mexico inaugurated the Instituto of Health and Tropical Diseases, a center devoted to conducting scientific research on the many technical-sanitary problems that were affecting the country, especially a series of diseases that carried the denomination “tropical” which thrived in the conditions of high heat and humidity characteristic of the world‟s tropical areas: malaria, leishmaniasis, hookworm (ancylostomiasis), river blindness (onchocerciasis), Chagas disease (trypanosomiasis), and dengue. The Instituto concentrated laboratory, clinical and social research in one center and during its fifty years of existence was at the vanguard in integrating research teams in protozoology, helminthology, entomology, pathological anatomy, bacteriology, pharmacology, chemistry, epidemiology and statistics. Research there focused on topics of concrete utility, preferentially ones that could have an immediate impact, for it participated actively not only in studying those afflictions but also in combatting them. Based, above all, on the Institute‟s own journal –Revista del Instituto de Salubridad y Enfermedades Tropicales– which covers the Institute‟s first quarter century (1939-1965), this article seeks to explain the conditions that led to the creation of a center that specialized in research in the field of public health. It also examines the discussion that arose around the term “tropical diseases”, explores the topic of experimentation with humans, advances the analysis of the Institute‟s work during that quarter century, and emphasizes the importance that history may hold for understanding some current problems in public health. The article concludes that the Institute did not attend exclusively to these tropical maladies, but also studied many other collective health problems of great social impact, and it called attention not only to the biological and geographical aspects of disease, but also to the economic and social conditions that contributed to their genesis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".