title: [Francisco Gavaldá, ahead of his time in the social statistics study of bubonic plague (1679)].
abstract: In 1651, Francisco Gavaldá (1618-1686) authored the first social statistics study on the bubonic plague which scourged western Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. specifically the plague having racked Valencia in 1647. Gavaldá was, in fact the first to study the plague not only statistically, but also from a social standpoint, denouncing the fact that it especially affected the poor, totally independently of the interests of the powerful.
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: López Piñero
mesh_terms: D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D010930:Plague / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000401:mortality; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014798:Vital Statistics