About leptospirosis and information: expanding health negligence concepts

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Cláudio Manuel Rodrigues

Abstract

When quoting the term “negligence” in a public health contextualization, the main inference is that we are neither dealing with lacking of financial resources, nor with available therapeutical management, but facing dissembled diseases, by professional staff which should be responsible for engaging forces to have them mitigated – although representing a potential hazard or an already installed impairment to public health. The laxity of a disease has a dual meaning. First is the mention of a classic oversighting speech due to the main performer’s lack of action: the pharmaceutical industry, the government and its health system. The second, with an intricate and concurrent arrangement, tells about the poor population management, producing a vicious circle that chains, leastwise a billion of souls worldwide. The World Health Organization only identifies 17 diseases called “neglected”, which affects these vulnerable populations both socially and economically. Leptospirosis — an emergent, endemic and globally incidence zoonosis — was not included. Taking the magnification of the “neglected disease” concept as a proposal, we discuss the hegemonic model disruption; taking into consideration how unassisted is leptospirosis as a major global incidence disease with a high lethal coverage, especially in areas without an adequate economical influx, due to the lack of reliable data about this disease and its relationship with animal and human populations.

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Rodrigues, C. M. (2017). About leptospirosis and information: expanding health negligence concepts. ABCS Health Sciences, 42(1). https://doi.org/10.7322/abcshs.v42i1.949
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