The study of the nutritional transition in Spain must combine sources concerning the health conditions and the nutritional profile of the population. Such an approximation to the issue is, as a rule, not possible until the two final decades of the 20th century. However, the report on the nutritional status of the Spanish army, undertaken by the American Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defence (ICNND) in 1958, combines both approaches. The report is based on the medical examination of 10727 army drafts. First, the article contextualised the report’s sample geographically and demographically; second, it validated the variables used statistically; and third, it explored the relationship between the diseases diagnosed, the biomarkers yielded by blood and urine tests, and the diet. The main results were as follows: (a) the report confirmed that the military population under examination did not suffer from severe dietary shortcomings; (b) the sample presents a double bias, geographical (overrepresentation of southern provinces) and institutional (underrepresentation of the land forces).
the final conclusion of SNAF report was that the nutrition of the Armed Forces of Spain was satisfactory. But, such statement should be qualified taking into account four possible factors of bias: the geographical distribution and the allocation of soldiers from the sample between the three armies. The improvement in the nutritional condition during the military service period and the proportion of youngsters called to the military service excluded from the service and declared fugitives.
RESUMENEn el presente articulo se analiza la organización económica y las estrategias de gestión desarrolladas por el cabildo catedralicio de Barcelona en el siglo XVII y su relación con las estructuras de la renta y del gasto que caracterizaban la economía de la institución. Se sostiene que la evolución de estas variables guardaba directa relación con las capacidades organizativas y gerenciales del cabildo y con la posición que ocupaba en la jerarquía eclesiástica diocesana.
ABSTRACTIn this article we analyze the economic organization and the management strategies developed by the cathedral council of Barcelona in the seventeenth century, and its relation with the income and expense structures that characterized the institution's (manees. It is claimed that the evolution of these variables was directhy related to the organizational and manageríal capacities of the council and also to the position that it occupied in the diocesan ecdesiastical hierarchy.
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