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J Occup Environ Med
October 2019
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Occupational Medicine Service, Newark, New Jersey Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Occupational Medicine Service, Newark, New Jersey Centers for Disease, Control and Prevention, Parasitic Diseases Branch, Atlanta, Georgia.
Cad Saude Publica
January 2008
Laboratorio de Ciencias Sociales, Av. Augustin Codazzi, Santa Mónica, Caracas, Venezuela.
The increasing number of autochthonous cases of Chagas disease in the Amazon since the 1970s has led to fear that the disease may become a new public health problem in the region. This transformation in the disease's epidemiological pattern in the Amazon can be explained by environmental and social changes in the last 30 years. The current article draws on the sociological theory of perverse effects to explain these changes as the unwanted result of the shift from the "inward" development model prevailing until the 1970s to the "outward" model that we know as globalization, oriented by industrial forces and international trade.
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