ARTICLE / ARTÍCULO 171 SALUD COLECTIVA, Buenos Aires, 10(2):171-184, doi: 10.18294/sc.2014.220 Quali-quantitative study of the social variables defining transmission scenarios of Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, 2001-2010 Estudio cualicuantitativo de las variables sociales que definen escenarios de transmisión de la fiebre hemorrágica argentina en las provincias de Buenos Aires y Santa Fe, 2001-2010 Mastrangelo, Andrea1; Tagliabue, Paula2; Berro, Lorena3; De Carolis, Darío4; Sinchi, Anabel5; Digilio, Clara6; Enria, Delia7 1PhD in Social Anthropo- ABSTRACT The aim of this paper was to characterize transmission scenarios of Argentine logy. Researcher Assistant, CONICET-CeNDIE-ANLIS, Hemorrhagic Fever in the post-vaccination period (2001-2010). The study was made up Argentina. andreaveronica- of three phases. The first consisted of a quantitative analysis using the database of the
[email protected] Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui National Institute of Human Viral Diseases [Instituto Nacional de 2Bachelor’s Degree in Enfermedades Virales Humanas] regarding the confirmed cases in the period of study Sociology. Research Fellow, (221 cases). Taking into account the transmission site and the known endemic area, cases CeNDIE-ANLIS, Argentina.
[email protected] were grouped into three hypothetical transmission scenarios, identified as: a) classical, b) emerging-reemerging, c) traveling. In the second phase, in order to test these hypotheses, 3Journalist. Communication Area, Universidad Nacional in-depth interviews were carried out from August to September 2011 within an intentio- del Noroeste de Buenos nally selected sample of patients distributed proportionally among the three hypotheses. Aires, Argentina. Finally, in the third stage, the data obtained for each hypothetical scenario were grouped
[email protected] into three spatiotemporal scales: the microscale (subject), the mesoscale (locality) and 4Bachelor’s Degree in Social macroscale (region).