title: [Health Campaigns Against Malaria in Spain through the Specialized Journalism in Spain (1929-1954)].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Malaria was one of the most important public health problems of the Colonial Medicine and, for this reason, the subject was reflected in the Spanish medical journalism. The aim of the paper was to reconstruct the Spanish contributions to international health during the first half of the twentieth century.
  
  
  METHODS
  The primary sources of information on malaria were the medical journals Medicina de los Países Cálidos and Medicina Colonial, between 1929 and 1954. The documents were classified according to the sections of the magazine and its contents were studied, framing them in the history of international public health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In primary sources were found 466 documents. Malaria was one of the major diseases of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco and Spanish Guinea, favoured by the occupation of the Spanish army. Antimalaria campaigns included strategies such as the use of Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, preventive education and massive quininización. Malariology in the specialized journalism, experienced a growing boom. The most outstanding authors in magazines analyzed were Gustavo Pittaluga, Sadí de Buen, Eliseo de Buen and Juan Gil-Collado.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Spanish specialized journalism provides the importance e interaction in antimalaria campaigns in Spain and Spanish African colonies of scientific, professional, political and military factors. The colonial situation was negative and marked differences between metropolis and colonies in terms of the effort, efficiency and the different temporal sequence of the measures undertaken.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, España.natibaron@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Barón Cano
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, España.
authors.forename: Miguel Armando
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mosquera Gordillo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Historia de la Ciencia y Ginecología, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, España.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ballester Añón
mesh_terms: D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history*; D016703:Equatorial Guinea; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control; D009018:Morocco; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D013030:Spain
keywords: Colonialism; Equatorial Guinea; Health Promotion; History, 20th Century; Malaria; Morocco; Periodicals as Topic; Plasmodium falciparum; Spain