Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarita |
| FAMILY NAME | Vilar-Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | VILAR-RODRÍGUEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade da Coruña |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9082-2734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historical Evolution of the Public Hospital System in Spain, 1963–2019: A Path to Equity in Healthcare Access
This article contributes to the academic debate on the impact of disparities in the spatial distribution of healthcare resources on the quality of the public health system from a historical perspective. In particular, it analyses the evolution of inequalities in the provincial distribution of public hospital beds in Spain during the Franco dictatorship and the more than four decades of the current democracy. The long study period under considerat…
The emergence of financial capital in the health insurance business in Europe: The case of Spain in the last fifty years
Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare professionals, remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their management was hardly professional, with limited actuarial techniques and they only accounted for a small percentage of total insurance business premiums. From the 1970s onwards, various factors changed this situation, driving processes of concentration, with numerous takeovers and mer…
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime
Over the last century, Western countries have undergone a process of medicalisation and hospitalisation of childbirth. This process led to the subordination of midwives to doctors’ authority and made the hospital the main focus of childbirth care, which entailed a break with the traditional formula. This article analyses the case of Spain, a country of special interest due to the convergence of three elements: a belated passage of public health i…
Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)
This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on countries in periods of democracy, this research focuses on the role of employers, and specifically employers’ mutuals, in the development of the industrial accident scheme during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The institutional elimination of the class st…
El papel de hospitales municipales y provinciales en España desde una perspectiva histórica
Los hospitales municipales y provinciales representaron un papel clave en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España hasta la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su papel estratégico en la beneficencia del siglo XIX para la cobertura de los pobres se modificó con el avance y la configuración del hospital moderno ubicado en nuevos edificios y técnicas de gestión, con una estructura interna jerarquizada y avances en ámbito diagnóstico-te…
Los factores condicionantes en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España
Este dossier reúne investigaciones que analizan algunos factores históricos condicionantes en el origen y evolución del sistema hospitalario público y privado en España. Se trata de un tema de plena actualidad en los ámbitos académicos internacionales en un contexto de pandemia provocada por el COVID-19, donde el interés por la salud pública y las infraestructuras hospitalarias ha cobrado un nuevo interés, también social. Por tanto, resulta un bu…
Automobiles and Tourism as Indicators of Development in Spain, 1918–1939
The development of motor vehicles and their mass production and consumption during the first decades of the twentieth century had significant economic and social effects. The developed Atlantic countries, world leaders in vehicle production, were the protagonists of the success of the car. However, the globalization brought about by the second industrial revolution drew in other countries on the periphery, thanks to transport technologies, teleco…
For the workers but without the workers’: Industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)
In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical theses, this paper analyses the historical roots of this situation, focusing on the institutions that historically managed industrial accident insurance coverage, especially during the first decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939–1966). This study examines…
Orígenes y evolución del turismo en Galicia durante el siglo XIX
This work aims to explain the origins and evolution of tourism as a sociological and economic phenomenon in Galicia from the beginning of the 19th century. It identifies its phases, its impulse factors -in particular the role played by the extension of the first railway lines by Galicia and towards Galicia-, its modalities and the tourist geography that was drawn during this century
De la belle époque a la nueva era del turismo termal: Los balnearios en España desde una perspectiva histórica (1874-2016)
Este trabajo pretende reconstruir la evolución histórica del sector balneario en España, una actividad clave para entender los orígenes del turismo, en general, y el desarrollo del turismo de salud, belleza y bienestar, en particular. La utilización de nueva evidencia cuantitativa nos permitirá completar investigaciones previas y analizar cómo el sector pasó por tres claras etapas desde 1874 hasta la actualidad. La primera etapa, conocida como la…
The long shadow of charity in the Spanish hospital system, c. 1870–1942
In the late nineteenth century, in most industrialized countries, the coverage of social risks in general and the risk of sickness in particular came from four basic sectors with different weighting according to country: the state, the market, the traditional family network and solidarity among workers. Historians have shown that, across time, hospital systems tended to be created in developed countries where at least one of these public or priva…
The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)
The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business in developed countries. However, much remains to investigate about the origin and evolution of the companies in this sector. This article analyses the genesis, growth and organisational changes of health insurance companies in Spain from the…
Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: The historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942-86
Throughout history, healthcare, along with diet, has been an essential component of life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country's hospital system is a key indicator for analysing the level of welfare achieved by health coverage. From an economic history perspective, the study of hospital systems is relevant since they stem from public and private investment and produce positive externalities by creating employment and stimulating other…
The tourism economy in Spain, 1900–1939: New sources, new methodologies and new results
This paper shows that the Spanish tourist phenomenon was not new to the 1960s and it demonstrates that the foundations of the industry can be located in the decades prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). It offers a new series of statistics for accommodation, spa resources and tourism brokering in pre-Civil War Spain through a careful examination of Spain's tourism resources during the first third of the twentieth century using new quantitat…
El debate en torno al seguro de salud público y privado en España: Desde la transición política a la Ley General de Sanidad (1975-1986)
This paper aims to analyze how the foundations of the current Spanish health model were developed and debated in Parliament from the beginning of the democratic transition until the approval of the General Health Law in 1986. During this period there was an important political debate on the model of the health system in Spain that orbited around the role that the State should represent in the management, financing and provision of services and it…
La explotación empresarial de las aguas mineromedicinales: La industria del agua embotellada en España (1875-2013)
Desde un punto de vista histórico, la industria del agua embotellada ha pasado de ser un apéndice del negocio balneario a convertirse en una de las actividades más importantes de la industria alimenticia en Europa. Dentro de este sector, España ha registrado una de las expansiones más espectaculares en las últimas décadas, lo que le ha permitido escalar posiciones en el ranking europeo, tanto en términos de producción como en consumo per cápita. …
La literatura de viajes y el transporte en Galicia desde el último tercio del siglo XVIII hasta mediados del XIX
España, en general, y Galicia, en particular, permanecieron alejadas de las rutas del Grand Tour, exponente principal del turismo moderno iniciado en Gran Bretaña. El desconocimiento del territorio y el deficiente estado de los transportes terrestres contribuyeron a este alejamiento, entre otros factores. Así, el trabajo se centra en el análisis de ambos obstáculos al primer desarrollo del turismo en Galicia entre finales del siglo XVIII y mediad…
La industria del agua embotellada en Europa, siglos XIX-XX. The bottled water industry in Europe, XIX-XXth centuries
Desde un punto de vista histórico, la industria del agua embotellada ha pasado de ser un apéndice del negocio balneario a convertirse en una de las actividades más importantes de la industria alimenticia en Europa. Este trabajo persigue dos objetivos básicos. Primero, conocer las diferentes etapas de la historia empresarial del agua envasada y la configuración de los grandes grupos empresariales que dominan el mercado actual. Con este fi n, se ap…
The labour market under the iron fist of the state’: The Franco dictatorship in the mirror of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin
This article focuses on the idea that intervention in the labour market through the suspension of labour rights and freedoms, fear and a fall in purchasing power all played a key role in achieving political and economic objectives in the regimes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. However, in each of these cases, the success of this policy was not as had been expected. These European experiences were essential for the configuration of the labour fra…
El pulso empresarial entre el Norte y el Sur de Galicia: El caso de Pastor y Riestra (1776-1936)
La historia empresarial de cada país ha sido protagonizada en buena medida por sagas empresariales que, acompañadas también por la suerte, supieron encontrar las oportunidades de negocio, arriesgaron e invirtieron y pasaron el testigo de generación en generación. No todas alcanzaron el mismo éxito ni lograron perdurar en el tiempo. Los cambios políticos, el progreso económico y las herencias cambiaron los escenarios de actuación y les obligaron a…
The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)
[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care\n\t\t\t\t provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed\n\t\t\t\t and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This\n\t\t\t\t article highlights how the dictatorship accelerated its implementation for political\n\t\t\t\t motives and this resulted in a failure of the system due to the lack of …
Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: The political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957
[Abstract:]This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the labor and social policies of the Franco dictatorship established in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939), and the links which existed between them. The offer of support to working families was presented through a paternalistic discourse of ‘social justice’ which was combined with tough repressive measures in the labor market. Within this context, compulsory social insurances pursu…
Friendly Societies, Commercial Insurance, and the State in Sickness Risk Coverage: The Case of Spain (1880–1944)
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the singularity of the Spanish position with regard to coverage of the risk of sickness within the context of the different welfare models described in international literature. This analysis enables us to verify that in Spain, as in other countries, there were initially different forms of sickness coverage which coexisted, created by the market, by workers themselves and, gradually, by the state. Within t…
Balnearios, intereses políticos y desarrollo turístico en el noroeste de España: El caso de A Toxa y Mondariz (1874-1935)
The aim of this article analyzes the close link between the peculiar political system of the Restoration and the development of the spa tourism in the northwest corner of Spain between 1874 and 1936. The main focus is to understand how the luxury spas in Galicia became strategic places to attract exclusive clients with the purpose of promoting tourism in the area or having contacts to ensure the success for other businesses or political careers. …
Éxito y ocaso de una saga de negociantes catalanes en Galicia: La Casa de Comercio Francisco Ferrer y Albà (1750-1860)
Este artículo trata de revisar el fenómeno social y económico que supuso la llegada de negociantes catalanes a Galicia en el siglo XVIII. Este tema ha sido tratado ampliamente por la historiografía gallega bien desde una perspectiva global o bien a través de apellidos empresariales ilustres, muchos de los cuales han sobrevivido hasta nuestros días. Sin embargo, no podemos olvidar que muchas de las familias catalanas que llegaron a tierras gallega…
The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)
[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care\n\t\t\t\t provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed\n\t\t\t\t and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This\n\t\t\t\t article highlights how the dictatorship accelerated its implementation for political\n\t\t\t\t motives and this resulted in a failure of the system due to the lack of …
Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: The political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957
[Abstract:]This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the labor and social policies of the Franco dictatorship established in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939), and the links which existed between them. The offer of support to working families was presented through a paternalistic discourse of ‘social justice’ which was combined with tough repressive measures in the labor market. Within this context, compulsory social insurances pursu…
Friendly Societies, Commercial Insurance, and the State in Sickness Risk Coverage: The Case of Spain (1880–1944)
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the singularity of the Spanish position with regard to coverage of the risk of sickness within the context of the different welfare models described in international literature. This analysis enables us to verify that in Spain, as in other countries, there were initially different forms of sickness coverage which coexisted, created by the market, by workers themselves and, gradually, by the state. Within t…
Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: The historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942-86
Throughout history, healthcare, along with diet, has been an essential component of life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country's hospital system is a key indicator for analysing the level of welfare achieved by health coverage. From an economic history perspective, the study of hospital systems is relevant since they stem from public and private investment and produce positive externalities by creating employment and stimulating other…
For the workers but without the workers’: Industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)
In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical theses, this paper analyses the historical roots of this situation, focusing on the institutions that historically managed industrial accident insurance coverage, especially during the first decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939–1966). This study examines…
The tourism economy in Spain, 1900–1939: New sources, new methodologies and new results
This paper shows that the Spanish tourist phenomenon was not new to the 1960s and it demonstrates that the foundations of the industry can be located in the decades prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). It offers a new series of statistics for accommodation, spa resources and tourism brokering in pre-Civil War Spain through a careful examination of Spain's tourism resources during the first third of the twentieth century using new quantitat…
Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)
This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on countries in periods of democracy, this research focuses on the role of employers, and specifically employers’ mutuals, in the development of the industrial accident scheme during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The institutional elimination of the class st…
The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)
The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business in developed countries. However, much remains to investigate about the origin and evolution of the companies in this sector. This article analyses the genesis, growth and organisational changes of health insurance companies in Spain from the…
The labour market under the iron fist of the state’: The Franco dictatorship in the mirror of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin
This article focuses on the idea that intervention in the labour market through the suspension of labour rights and freedoms, fear and a fall in purchasing power all played a key role in achieving political and economic objectives in the regimes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. However, in each of these cases, the success of this policy was not as had been expected. These European experiences were essential for the configuration of the labour fra…
Éxito y ocaso de una saga de negociantes catalanes en Galicia: La Casa de Comercio Francisco Ferrer y Albà (1750-1860)
Este artículo trata de revisar el fenómeno social y económico que supuso la llegada de negociantes catalanes a Galicia en el siglo XVIII. Este tema ha sido tratado ampliamente por la historiografía gallega bien desde una perspectiva global o bien a través de apellidos empresariales ilustres, muchos de los cuales han sobrevivido hasta nuestros días. Sin embargo, no podemos olvidar que muchas de las familias catalanas que llegaron a tierras gallega…
Éxito y ocaso de una saga de negociantes catalanes en Galicia: La Casa de Comercio Francisco Ferrer y Albà (1750-1860)
Este artículo trata de revisar el fenómeno social y económico que supuso la llegada de negociantes catalanes a Galicia en el siglo XVIII. Este tema ha sido tratado ampliamente por la historiografía gallega bien desde una perspectiva global o bien a través de apellidos empresariales ilustres, muchos de los cuales han sobrevivido hasta nuestros días. Sin embargo, no podemos olvidar que muchas de las familias catalanas que llegaron a tierras gallega…
Friendly Societies, Commercial Insurance, and the State in Sickness Risk Coverage: The Case of Spain (1880–1944)
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the singularity of the Spanish position with regard to coverage of the risk of sickness within the context of the different welfare models described in international literature. This analysis enables us to verify that in Spain, as in other countries, there were initially different forms of sickness coverage which coexisted, created by the market, by workers themselves and, gradually, by the state. Within t…
Balnearios, intereses políticos y desarrollo turístico en el noroeste de España: El caso de A Toxa y Mondariz (1874-1935)
The aim of this article analyzes the close link between the peculiar political system of the Restoration and the development of the spa tourism in the northwest corner of Spain between 1874 and 1936. The main focus is to understand how the luxury spas in Galicia became strategic places to attract exclusive clients with the purpose of promoting tourism in the area or having contacts to ensure the success for other businesses or political careers. …
El pulso empresarial entre el Norte y el Sur de Galicia: El caso de Pastor y Riestra (1776-1936)
La historia empresarial de cada país ha sido protagonizada en buena medida por sagas empresariales que, acompañadas también por la suerte, supieron encontrar las oportunidades de negocio, arriesgaron e invirtieron y pasaron el testigo de generación en generación. No todas alcanzaron el mismo éxito ni lograron perdurar en el tiempo. Los cambios políticos, el progreso económico y las herencias cambiaron los escenarios de actuación y les obligaron a…
The Introduction of Sickness Insurance in Spain in the First Decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1962)
[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care\n\t\t\t\t provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed\n\t\t\t\t and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This\n\t\t\t\t article highlights how the dictatorship accelerated its implementation for political\n\t\t\t\t motives and this resulted in a failure of the system due to the lack of …
Labour repression and social justice in Franco's Spain: The political objectives of compulsory sickness insurance, 1942–1957
[Abstract:]This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the labor and social policies of the Franco dictatorship established in Spain after the Civil War (1936-1939), and the links which existed between them. The offer of support to working families was presented through a paternalistic discourse of ‘social justice’ which was combined with tough repressive measures in the labor market. Within this context, compulsory social insurances pursu…
The labour market under the iron fist of the state’: The Franco dictatorship in the mirror of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin
This article focuses on the idea that intervention in the labour market through the suspension of labour rights and freedoms, fear and a fall in purchasing power all played a key role in achieving political and economic objectives in the regimes of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. However, in each of these cases, the success of this policy was not as had been expected. These European experiences were essential for the configuration of the labour fra…
La industria del agua embotellada en Europa, siglos XIX-XX. The bottled water industry in Europe, XIX-XXth centuries
Desde un punto de vista histórico, la industria del agua embotellada ha pasado de ser un apéndice del negocio balneario a convertirse en una de las actividades más importantes de la industria alimenticia en Europa. Este trabajo persigue dos objetivos básicos. Primero, conocer las diferentes etapas de la historia empresarial del agua envasada y la configuración de los grandes grupos empresariales que dominan el mercado actual. Con este fi n, se ap…
La explotación empresarial de las aguas mineromedicinales: La industria del agua embotellada en España (1875-2013)
Desde un punto de vista histórico, la industria del agua embotellada ha pasado de ser un apéndice del negocio balneario a convertirse en una de las actividades más importantes de la industria alimenticia en Europa. Dentro de este sector, España ha registrado una de las expansiones más espectaculares en las últimas décadas, lo que le ha permitido escalar posiciones en el ranking europeo, tanto en términos de producción como en consumo per cápita. …
La literatura de viajes y el transporte en Galicia desde el último tercio del siglo XVIII hasta mediados del XIX
España, en general, y Galicia, en particular, permanecieron alejadas de las rutas del Grand Tour, exponente principal del turismo moderno iniciado en Gran Bretaña. El desconocimiento del territorio y el deficiente estado de los transportes terrestres contribuyeron a este alejamiento, entre otros factores. Así, el trabajo se centra en el análisis de ambos obstáculos al primer desarrollo del turismo en Galicia entre finales del siglo XVIII y mediad…
The tourism economy in Spain, 1900–1939: New sources, new methodologies and new results
This paper shows that the Spanish tourist phenomenon was not new to the 1960s and it demonstrates that the foundations of the industry can be located in the decades prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). It offers a new series of statistics for accommodation, spa resources and tourism brokering in pre-Civil War Spain through a careful examination of Spain's tourism resources during the first third of the twentieth century using new quantitat…
El debate en torno al seguro de salud público y privado en España: Desde la transición política a la Ley General de Sanidad (1975-1986)
This paper aims to analyze how the foundations of the current Spanish health model were developed and debated in Parliament from the beginning of the democratic transition until the approval of the General Health Law in 1986. During this period there was an important political debate on the model of the health system in Spain that orbited around the role that the State should represent in the management, financing and provision of services and it…
Orígenes y evolución del turismo en Galicia durante el siglo XIX
This work aims to explain the origins and evolution of tourism as a sociological and economic phenomenon in Galicia from the beginning of the 19th century. It identifies its phases, its impulse factors -in particular the role played by the extension of the first railway lines by Galicia and towards Galicia-, its modalities and the tourist geography that was drawn during this century
De la belle époque a la nueva era del turismo termal: Los balnearios en España desde una perspectiva histórica (1874-2016)
Este trabajo pretende reconstruir la evolución histórica del sector balneario en España, una actividad clave para entender los orígenes del turismo, en general, y el desarrollo del turismo de salud, belleza y bienestar, en particular. La utilización de nueva evidencia cuantitativa nos permitirá completar investigaciones previas y analizar cómo el sector pasó por tres claras etapas desde 1874 hasta la actualidad. La primera etapa, conocida como la…
The long shadow of charity in the Spanish hospital system, c. 1870–1942
In the late nineteenth century, in most industrialized countries, the coverage of social risks in general and the risk of sickness in particular came from four basic sectors with different weighting according to country: the state, the market, the traditional family network and solidarity among workers. Historians have shown that, across time, hospital systems tended to be created in developed countries where at least one of these public or priva…
The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)
The crisis of welfare states in Europe has offered a growing market share to private health insurance companies. Health insurance is currently one of the fastest growing branches of private insurance business in developed countries. However, much remains to investigate about the origin and evolution of the companies in this sector. This article analyses the genesis, growth and organisational changes of health insurance companies in Spain from the…
Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: The historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942-86
Throughout history, healthcare, along with diet, has been an essential component of life and a country's welfare. In particular, a country's hospital system is a key indicator for analysing the level of welfare achieved by health coverage. From an economic history perspective, the study of hospital systems is relevant since they stem from public and private investment and produce positive externalities by creating employment and stimulating other…
For the workers but without the workers’: Industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)
In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical theses, this paper analyses the historical roots of this situation, focusing on the institutions that historically managed industrial accident insurance coverage, especially during the first decades of the Franco Dictatorship (1939–1966). This study examines…
Employers’ Mutuals and Accident Insurance Scheme in Spain: From Rejection to Control and Collaboration (1966–1990)
This article discusses the role of employers and their organizations in promoting or hindering social insurance schemes and, ultimately, the welfare state. Unlike most studies that center on countries in periods of democracy, this research focuses on the role of employers, and specifically employers’ mutuals, in the development of the industrial accident scheme during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. The institutional elimination of the class st…
El papel de hospitales municipales y provinciales en España desde una perspectiva histórica
Los hospitales municipales y provinciales representaron un papel clave en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España hasta la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su papel estratégico en la beneficencia del siglo XIX para la cobertura de los pobres se modificó con el avance y la configuración del hospital moderno ubicado en nuevos edificios y técnicas de gestión, con una estructura interna jerarquizada y avances en ámbito diagnóstico-te…
Los factores condicionantes en la configuración histórica del sistema hospitalario en España
Este dossier reúne investigaciones que analizan algunos factores históricos condicionantes en el origen y evolución del sistema hospitalario público y privado en España. Se trata de un tema de plena actualidad en los ámbitos académicos internacionales en un contexto de pandemia provocada por el COVID-19, donde el interés por la salud pública y las infraestructuras hospitalarias ha cobrado un nuevo interés, también social. Por tanto, resulta un bu…
Automobiles and Tourism as Indicators of Development in Spain, 1918–1939
The development of motor vehicles and their mass production and consumption during the first decades of the twentieth century had significant economic and social effects. The developed Atlantic countries, world leaders in vehicle production, were the protagonists of the success of the car. However, the globalization brought about by the second industrial revolution drew in other countries on the periphery, thanks to transport technologies, teleco…
The emergence of financial capital in the health insurance business in Europe: The case of Spain in the last fifty years
Sickness insurance companies were developed in Spain by doctors and healthcare professionals, remaining outside the interests of general insurance companies. Their management was hardly professional, with limited actuarial techniques and they only accounted for a small percentage of total insurance business premiums. From the 1970s onwards, various factors changed this situation, driving processes of concentration, with numerous takeovers and mer…
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime
Over the last century, Western countries have undergone a process of medicalisation and hospitalisation of childbirth. This process led to the subordination of midwives to doctors’ authority and made the hospital the main focus of childbirth care, which entailed a break with the traditional formula. This article analyses the case of Spain, a country of special interest due to the convergence of three elements: a belated passage of public health i…
Historical Evolution of the Public Hospital System in Spain, 1963–2019: A Path to Equity in Healthcare Access
This article contributes to the academic debate on the impact of disparities in the spatial distribution of healthcare resources on the quality of the public health system from a historical perspective. In particular, it analyses the evolution of inequalities in the provincial distribution of public hospital beds in Spain during the Franco dictatorship and the more than four decades of the current democracy. The long study period under considerat…
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