José G Rigau-Pérez
Biographic Data
| ID | 726665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José G Rigau-Pérez |
| GIVEN NAMES | José G |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigau-Pérez |
| SIGNATURE | RIGAU-PÉREZ J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Edward Bliss Emerson's Transnational Journal: Danish West Indies, Puerto Rico, New England, 1831-1834
The journal and letters written by Edward Bliss Emerson in the Caribbean provide exciting, idyllic, and at times troublesome visions of that region, but also insights on the life of a sick, poor, religious and brilliant young man. Emerson’s reflections on life in St. Croix remain unquoted, and although brief excerpts from the Puerto Rico portion of the journal appeared in print in 1959 and 1991, his more extensive text supplements the contemporar…
Qualitative Research by a Non-Hierarchical Team
In this and subsequent issues, The Qualitative Report will publish eight articles about a journal written by Edward B. Emerson (1805-1834), a younger brother of American philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. This introduction will describe the origins of the project, the sources, the process and the outcomes of the collaboration. The authors hope to document and illustrate the richness and value of interdisciplinary qualitative inquiry, whi…
The World's First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813
Smallpox produced the death of up to thirty percent of those infected, so Jenner's preventive method spread quickly. The Spanish government designed and supported a ten-year effort to carry smallpox vaccine to its American and Asian territories in a chain of arm-to-arm vaccination of children. An expedition directed by Doctor Francisco Xavier de Balmis sailed from Corunna in November 1803, stopping in the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Venezuel…
Cómo responder a una epidemia de dengue: Visión global y experiencia en Puerto Rico
Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is endemic and frequently epidemic in many tropical countries. Because low-incidence periods vary in length, it is difficult to know in advance when an epidemic will occur. Response efforts, despite being logical, have been counter-productive at times. Furthermore, experience has demonstrated that dengue epidemics last a long time, making it important that government control efforts be sustainabl…
Dengue severity in the elderly in Puerto Rico
The elderly appear to be more likely than youth and younger adults to develop severe illness when infected with the dengue virus, in a pattern similar to that of infants. The clinical evaluation of elderly patients with dengue must include a careful assessment of increased capillary permeability and occult hemorrhage in order to avoid complications from delayed identification and treatment of severe dengue infection. These findings are of increas…
Historia de la enfermería de salud pública en España (1860-1977) (review)
This "History of Public Health Nursing in Spain" by Josep Bernabeu and Encarna Gascón offers a concise account of the route through which the profession of visiting nurse developed, briefly flourished, and then withered in Spain from the early twentieth century to 1977. This was not a lineal development; even as late as 1953 a pamphlet decried that in Spain "the word nurse is not given its correct meaning" (p. 83). Indeed, the readers would have …
Epidemiología americana y filipina, 1492-1898 (review)
Francisco Guerra's gift to readers, on his fiftieth anniversary of writing comprehensive medical histories and bibliographies, is a work that bespeaks his last name ("war"). Epidemiología americana y filipina is a frontal assault against the "Black Legend" that blames Spanish cruelty for the disappearance of the natives [End Page 142] of the American continent. From the first page Guerra indicates that demographic "abysses" cannot be explained by…
La salut en la història d'Europa (review)
"Health in the history of Europe" is a lavish birth announcement--the trilingual [End Page 365] catalog of an exhibition held to inaugurate the Researchers' Residence in Barcelona. The institution is jointly sponsored by Catalonia's autonomic government (the Generalitat) and Spain's agency for coordinating and funding scientific research, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). The Residence opened with an exhibition to illust…
A deviation bar chart for detecting dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico
OBJECTIVES: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deviation bar chart (Statistical Software for Public Health Surveillance) and laboratory-based surveillance data were evaluated for their utility in detecting dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico. METHODS: A significant increase in dengue incidence was defined as an excess of suspected cases of more than 2 SDs beyond the mean for all 4-week periods from April through June (the period of lowest s…
Manifestaciones clínicas del dengue hemorrágico en Puerto Rico, 1990-1991
Este estudio se realizó con el fin de mostrar que el dengue hemorrágico (DH) se da en Puerto Rico, si bien es una enfermedad subnotificada, lo que se debe en parte a su subdiagnóstico en los hospitales. La vigilancia de casos graves de dengue permitió determinar que hubo 986 hospitalizaciones por sospecha de dengue en el período de 1990-1991. En esa época, el sistema de vigilancia identificó 20 casos de DH, incluidos tres de síndrome de choque po…
Clinical manifestations of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Puerto Rico, 1990-1991
The aim of the study reported here was to demonstrate that dengue hemorrhagic fever occurs in Puerto Rico, that it is underreported, and that this underreporting is due partly to underdiagnosis in hospitals. Surveillance for severe dengue identified 986 hospitalizations for suspected dengue in 1990-1991. At the time, on the basis of available clinical and laboratory data, the surveillance system routinely identified 20 DHF cases, including three …
Surgery at the Service of Theology: Postmortem Cesarean Sections in Puerto Rico and the Royal Cedula of 1804
Charles IV issued a royal cedula (ad monition with the force of law) ordering the civil and religious officials in Spanish America and the Philip pines to ensure that no pregnant woman was buried unless a cesarean section was carried out. The order was meant to assure that living fetuses received baptism (which the Roman Catholic church considered an indispensable requirement for salvation) and to save them from being buried inside their mothers.…
Health Assessment of the 1985 Flood Disaster in Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, during October 1985, tropical storm Isabel caused widespread flooding, landslides, and collapsing of bridges. A maximum of 180 persons died, including an estimated 127 at a landslide where the majority (78%) of deaths resulted from traumatic injury. Approximately 3,000 homes were damaged with 4,400 persons temporarily displaced into 44 shelters. A shelter surveillance system was established to monitor 19 acute and chronic conditio…
The Introduction of Smallpox Vaccine in 1803 and the Adoption of Immunization as a Government Function in Puerto Rico
HE yelling could be heard in the street, two floors down. Young soldiers rushed up the stairs, in order not to miss the action, while other witnesses nearby must have wondered why one physician had not yet thrown the other off the balcony. One hundred sixty thousand persons in Puerto Rico all know about this affair, it has been so public and scandalous.' A king's physician, the royal commissioner, was publicly insulting the city doctor, the man w…
Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803)
Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803) Get access JOSÉ G. RIGAU-PÉREZ JOSÉ G. RIGAU-PÉREZ Field Services Division Epidemiology Program Office Centers for Disease ControlAtlanta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 423–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXVII.4.423 Publishe…
The Introduction of Smallpox Vaccine in 1803 and the Adoption of Immunization as a Government Function in Puerto Rico
HE yelling could be heard in the street, two floors down. Young soldiers rushed up the stairs, in order not to miss the action, while other witnesses nearby must have wondered why one physician had not yet thrown the other off the balcony. One hundred sixty thousand persons in Puerto Rico all know about this affair, it has been so public and scandalous.' A king's physician, the royal commissioner, was publicly insulting the city doctor, the man w…
Edward Bliss Emerson's Transnational Journal: Danish West Indies, Puerto Rico, New England, 1831-1834
The journal and letters written by Edward Bliss Emerson in the Caribbean provide exciting, idyllic, and at times troublesome visions of that region, but also insights on the life of a sick, poor, religious and brilliant young man. Emerson’s reflections on life in St. Croix remain unquoted, and although brief excerpts from the Puerto Rico portion of the journal appeared in print in 1959 and 1991, his more extensive text supplements the contemporar…
Surgery at the Service of Theology: Postmortem Cesarean Sections in Puerto Rico and the Royal Cedula of 1804
Charles IV issued a royal cedula (ad monition with the force of law) ordering the civil and religious officials in Spanish America and the Philip pines to ensure that no pregnant woman was buried unless a cesarean section was carried out. The order was meant to assure that living fetuses received baptism (which the Roman Catholic church considered an indispensable requirement for salvation) and to save them from being buried inside their mothers.…
Health Assessment of the 1985 Flood Disaster in Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, during October 1985, tropical storm Isabel caused widespread flooding, landslides, and collapsing of bridges. A maximum of 180 persons died, including an estimated 127 at a landslide where the majority (78%) of deaths resulted from traumatic injury. Approximately 3,000 homes were damaged with 4,400 persons temporarily displaced into 44 shelters. A shelter surveillance system was established to monitor 19 acute and chronic conditio…
Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803)
Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803) Get access JOSÉ G. RIGAU-PÉREZ JOSÉ G. RIGAU-PÉREZ Field Services Division Epidemiology Program Office Centers for Disease ControlAtlanta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 423–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXVII.4.423 Publishe…
Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803)
Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803) Get access JOSÉ G. RIGAU-PÉREZ JOSÉ G. RIGAU-PÉREZ Field Services Division Epidemiology Program Office Centers for Disease ControlAtlanta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 423–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXXVII.4.423 Publishe…
The Introduction of Smallpox Vaccine in 1803 and the Adoption of Immunization as a Government Function in Puerto Rico
HE yelling could be heard in the street, two floors down. Young soldiers rushed up the stairs, in order not to miss the action, while other witnesses nearby must have wondered why one physician had not yet thrown the other off the balcony. One hundred sixty thousand persons in Puerto Rico all know about this affair, it has been so public and scandalous.' A king's physician, the royal commissioner, was publicly insulting the city doctor, the man w…
Health Assessment of the 1985 Flood Disaster in Puerto Rico
In Puerto Rico, during October 1985, tropical storm Isabel caused widespread flooding, landslides, and collapsing of bridges. A maximum of 180 persons died, including an estimated 127 at a landslide where the majority (78%) of deaths resulted from traumatic injury. Approximately 3,000 homes were damaged with 4,400 persons temporarily displaced into 44 shelters. A shelter surveillance system was established to monitor 19 acute and chronic conditio…
Surgery at the Service of Theology: Postmortem Cesarean Sections in Puerto Rico and the Royal Cedula of 1804
Charles IV issued a royal cedula (ad monition with the force of law) ordering the civil and religious officials in Spanish America and the Philip pines to ensure that no pregnant woman was buried unless a cesarean section was carried out. The order was meant to assure that living fetuses received baptism (which the Roman Catholic church considered an indispensable requirement for salvation) and to save them from being buried inside their mothers.…
Manifestaciones clínicas del dengue hemorrágico en Puerto Rico, 1990-1991
Este estudio se realizó con el fin de mostrar que el dengue hemorrágico (DH) se da en Puerto Rico, si bien es una enfermedad subnotificada, lo que se debe en parte a su subdiagnóstico en los hospitales. La vigilancia de casos graves de dengue permitió determinar que hubo 986 hospitalizaciones por sospecha de dengue en el período de 1990-1991. En esa época, el sistema de vigilancia identificó 20 casos de DH, incluidos tres de síndrome de choque po…
Clinical manifestations of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Puerto Rico, 1990-1991
The aim of the study reported here was to demonstrate that dengue hemorrhagic fever occurs in Puerto Rico, that it is underreported, and that this underreporting is due partly to underdiagnosis in hospitals. Surveillance for severe dengue identified 986 hospitalizations for suspected dengue in 1990-1991. At the time, on the basis of available clinical and laboratory data, the surveillance system routinely identified 20 DHF cases, including three …
A deviation bar chart for detecting dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico
OBJECTIVES: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deviation bar chart (Statistical Software for Public Health Surveillance) and laboratory-based surveillance data were evaluated for their utility in detecting dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico. METHODS: A significant increase in dengue incidence was defined as an excess of suspected cases of more than 2 SDs beyond the mean for all 4-week periods from April through June (the period of lowest s…
La salut en la història d'Europa (review)
"Health in the history of Europe" is a lavish birth announcement--the trilingual [End Page 365] catalog of an exhibition held to inaugurate the Researchers' Residence in Barcelona. The institution is jointly sponsored by Catalonia's autonomic government (the Generalitat) and Spain's agency for coordinating and funding scientific research, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). The Residence opened with an exhibition to illust…
Epidemiología americana y filipina, 1492-1898 (review)
Francisco Guerra's gift to readers, on his fiftieth anniversary of writing comprehensive medical histories and bibliographies, is a work that bespeaks his last name ("war"). Epidemiología americana y filipina is a frontal assault against the "Black Legend" that blames Spanish cruelty for the disappearance of the natives [End Page 142] of the American continent. From the first page Guerra indicates that demographic "abysses" cannot be explained by…
Historia de la enfermería de salud pública en España (1860-1977) (review)
This "History of Public Health Nursing in Spain" by Josep Bernabeu and Encarna Gascón offers a concise account of the route through which the profession of visiting nurse developed, briefly flourished, and then withered in Spain from the early twentieth century to 1977. This was not a lineal development; even as late as 1953 a pamphlet decried that in Spain "the word nurse is not given its correct meaning" (p. 83). Indeed, the readers would have …
Dengue severity in the elderly in Puerto Rico
The elderly appear to be more likely than youth and younger adults to develop severe illness when infected with the dengue virus, in a pattern similar to that of infants. The clinical evaluation of elderly patients with dengue must include a careful assessment of increased capillary permeability and occult hemorrhage in order to avoid complications from delayed identification and treatment of severe dengue infection. These findings are of increas…
Cómo responder a una epidemia de dengue: Visión global y experiencia en Puerto Rico
Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, is endemic and frequently epidemic in many tropical countries. Because low-incidence periods vary in length, it is difficult to know in advance when an epidemic will occur. Response efforts, despite being logical, have been counter-productive at times. Furthermore, experience has demonstrated that dengue epidemics last a long time, making it important that government control efforts be sustainabl…
The World's First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803–1813
Smallpox produced the death of up to thirty percent of those infected, so Jenner's preventive method spread quickly. The Spanish government designed and supported a ten-year effort to carry smallpox vaccine to its American and Asian territories in a chain of arm-to-arm vaccination of children. An expedition directed by Doctor Francisco Xavier de Balmis sailed from Corunna in November 1803, stopping in the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, and Venezuel…
Edward Bliss Emerson's Transnational Journal: Danish West Indies, Puerto Rico, New England, 1831-1834
The journal and letters written by Edward Bliss Emerson in the Caribbean provide exciting, idyllic, and at times troublesome visions of that region, but also insights on the life of a sick, poor, religious and brilliant young man. Emerson’s reflections on life in St. Croix remain unquoted, and although brief excerpts from the Puerto Rico portion of the journal appeared in print in 1959 and 1991, his more extensive text supplements the contemporar…
Qualitative Research by a Non-Hierarchical Team
In this and subsequent issues, The Qualitative Report will publish eight articles about a journal written by Edward B. Emerson (1805-1834), a younger brother of American philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. This introduction will describe the origins of the project, the sources, the process and the outcomes of the collaboration. The authors hope to document and illustrate the richness and value of interdisciplinary qualitative inquiry, whi…
Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (6 works) · Virology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Dengue fever (5 works) · Mosquito-borne diseases and control (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Immunology (4 works)