title: [Samuel Barnsley Pessoa and the social determinants of rural endemic diseases].
abstract: This article analyzes the main aspects of the trajectory, the ideas and the academic and political activism of Samuel Barnsley Pessoa (1898-1976). It reveals that Samuel Pessoa's activism must also be understood in the context of his communist militancy and highlights the fact that one of the original contributions of his work was the establishment of the relationship between agrarian structure and rural endemic diseases, between large and unproductive estates and disease and adherence to a project of transformation of Brazilian society.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Pesquisa, Casa Oswaldo Cruzz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, hochman@fiocruz.br.
authors.forename: Gilberto
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hochman
mesh_terms: D019353:Endemic Diseases / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011057:Politics; D012423:Rural Health; D064890:Social Determinants of Health