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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. METHOD: 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.
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Salud Ambiental , Atención Primaria de Salud , Administración de Residuos , Estado de Salud , Humanos , Aguas del Alcantarillado , España , Microbiología del AguaRESUMEN
In the present study, we have carried out an evaluation of school examinations in 47,943 children in the past course. We have compared our results with those from similar previous studies in other parts of Spain. Our findings were comparable in visual acuity and scoliosis, and not so much about cryptorchidism and phimosis. We think that examinations are necessary, but it is needed to increase the quality and the effectiveness, to get closer to the knowledge of usefulness and to the correct evaluation of school health programs.