The Epidemiology of Malaria in Colombia: a Heretical View
ORIGINAL RESEARCH The Epidemiology of Malaria in Colombia: A Heretical View Jaime Carmona-Fonseca Abstract malaria control and/or they address the interests of Background: Studies on the long-term those in charge of malaria control. behavior of malaria are scarce in Colombia and, in As a result, a body of knowledge (more or less, general, are aimed at explaining this behavior from extensive on a particular topic), emerges until a perspective that adjusts to the function of the finally a large body of knowledge develops among apparatuses responsible for the control of the those in charge of malaria control. Many people disease, without applying a critical vision. outside of those in malaria control, will end up Objective: To present epidemiological data on repeating a given slogan without thinking about it malaria in Colombia and to try to explain its long- critically. This procedure describes very well what term behavior from a point of view that questions is known as a chain of rumors. the functionalist vision. Methodology: The data presented in this paper was collected in a non- Rumor has it: vague news that runs among systematic review. The authors sought to find data people; the confused noise of voices; dull, vague and continuous noise; it has multiple and arguments that sustain the criticism of the synonyms: noise, whisper, murmur, runrún, issues addressed. Results: The tendency of bisbiseo, cuchicheo, sound, gossip, talk, malarial morbidity, as expressed with the annual murmuring, tale, mess, history, bulo, etc. parasitic index adjusted for the exposed (http://www.wordreference.com/sinoni- population, increased in the period 1935-2020.
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