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Record W7139590970

Smallpox prevention in Portugal during the mid-19th century (1834-1851)

2025· article· pt· W7139590970 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Joaquim Melon Simões

Bibliographic record

VenuePortuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2025
Typearticle
Languagept
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Medicine and Tropical Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPortugueseSmallpoxDocumentationQuarter (Canadian coin)Register (sociolinguistics)State (computer science)Context (archaeology)
DOInot available

Abstract

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O propósito deste artigo é de aferir o estado da vacinação em Portugal no segundo quartel do século XIX, mais concretamente na fase de implantação da nova monarquia constitucional, numa análise das formas como se processavam os mecanismos de prevenção da varíola. O estudo é desenvolvido, procurando enquadrar as políticas e práticas vacínicas portuguesas no contexto europeu, a partir de documentação produzida pelo Conselho de Saúde Pública, entidade responsável pelas políticas sanitárias na época. A pesquisa centrou-se nas publicações dos Annaes do Conselho de Saúde Pública do Reino entre 1838 e 1842, e no trabalho efetuado por Neves e Melo, diretor da Instituição Vacínica e coordenador das políticas de vacinação em Portugal, entre 1846 e 1851. Na sequência da investigação efetuada, conclui-se que as práticas vacínicas em Portugal estavam bastante aquém das realizadas em estados europeus mais desenvolvidos, apesar do esforço realizado pelas autoridades sanitárias portuguesas para melhorar a situação. The purpose of this article is to assess the state of vaccination in Portugal in the second quarter of the 19th century, specifically during the consolidation of the new constitutional monarchy, by analysing the ways in which smallpox prevention mechanisms were implemented. The study endeavours to frame Portuguese vaccination policies and practices in the European context, based on documentation produced by the national Public Health Council, the body responsible for health policies at the time. The research centred on the publications of the Annaes do Conselho de Saúde Pública do Reino between 1838 and 1842, and on the work carried out by Neves e Melo, director of the Instituição Vacínica and coordinator of vaccination policies in Portugal between 1846 and 1851. It was concluded that vaccination practices in Portugal were well below those in more developed European states, despite the efforts made by the Portuguese health authorities to improve the situation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.084

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.386
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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