[Waste water management in a health area: environmental hygiene in primary care].
BACKGROUND
Within the scope of the programmes to be developed by the primary health care parties, we consider it interesting to investigate the sewage management in our health area because of its impact on the population health and welfare and the main socioeconomic local activities: agriculture and tourism.


METHODS
We carry out an epidemiological descriptive study: we review the most important structural and functional characteristics of the sewage depuration and collection in the municipality of S. Javier (Murcia).


RESULTS
The evaluation of the collected data made it obvious that deficiencies exist in the collection system as well as in the sewage processing; both deficiencies were shown in some places of the locality and in particular periods of the year, with a consequent risk of environmental contamination and enteric diseases transmission among population and summer holidaymakers.


CONCLUSIONS
A positive corrective action on the installations by the organisms responsible for the local sanitation as a response to these conclusions, which we informed due time, constitutes a good stimulant to go on investigating this question of such a great sanitary and general interest, which is almost unknown in medical literature.
Centro de Salud de San Javier, Murcia.
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García Cuadrado
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Contessotto Spadetto
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Pereñiguez Barranco
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Fuster Quiñonero
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Paricio Núñez
D004782:Environmental Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012722:Sewage; D013030:Spain; D018505:Waste Management; D014871:Water Microbiology
D012722:Sewage
Estudio sobre la gestión de las aguas residuales en una zona de salud: higiene medioambiental en atención primaria.