Two anti-poliomyelitic vaccination campaigns coexisted in 1963: the Salk vaccine used by the Compulsory Health Insurance and the pilot experience with the oral Sabin vaccine promoted by the Health General Office. This simultaneity of campaigns was due to the interest that both bodies had to control the Preventive Medicine in Spain. The Compulsory Sickness Insurance used the anti-polio vaccine to promote itself socially in a time when the Basic Law on Social Security was being developed. Under these circumstances, the Health General Office allegedly brought forward its vaccine campaign by using a test of an innovative oral trivalent vaccine in the province of León, something which was hidden to the public. The Health General Office's claim of competence in prevention and the need of a massive response to a voluntary vaccine led to a singular advertising campaign with old messages in innovative means of communication.
ResumenCon motivo de la celebración del primer centenario de la creación de la Cátedra de Hidrología Médica en la Universidad Central (hoy Universidad Complutense de Madrid) se organizó en la Facultad de Medicina, de abril a junio de 2012, una exposición que reúne libros, memorias manuscritas, documentos administrativos, planos, fotografías y objetos que permiten exhibir las circunstancias que concurrieron para la creación de dicha cátedra, su evolución y principales aportaciones, así como su presente y retos futuros. La exposición física se ha acompañado de una versión virtual expandida que garantiza su accesibilidad permanente y la incorporación de nuevos documentos.
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