Sobre Progreso Social y Sostenibilidad: ¿existirá Buenos Aires cuando los Jóvenes de Hoy sean Viejos?

• Autores: José Antonio Tapia Granados
• Localización: Salud colectiva, ISSN-e 1851-8265, ISSN 1669-2381, Vol. 3, Nº. 1, 2007, págs. 63-70
• Idioma: español
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  • As part of the discourse of progress and the promises of science, hygiene as a discipline has been playing the role of a great advisor, a sort of expert in the art of observing, correcting, improving and trying to change the health of the social body and the modern nation. In that context hygiene even imagined alternative or utopian cities. Emilio Coni, perhaps the most distinguished Argentine hygienist of the end of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th, imagined one of such cities. The following notes aim at contextualizing his "Argentine ideal city". The original version of Coni's: Will Buenos Aires Exist when the Young of Today are Old?
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  • español

    Se presentan y cuestionan los conceptos sobre sostenibilidad y progreso social de un artículo de Goñi y Goin publicado en Salud Colectiva, se dan alternativas a la visión de dichos autores, se analiza brevemente la relación entre crecimiento económico y progreso en condiciones de salud (medidas según la mortalidad de menores de cinco años) en la Argentina en los años 1960-2003, y se discuten informaciones recientes referentes a las previsiones científicas de efectos del cambio climático y ciertos conflictos políticos suscitados por esas previsiones

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    The concepts related to sustainability and social progress contained in a paper published in Salud Colectiva by Goñi and Goin are discussed and questioned. Alternative views are then discussed, and the relation between economic growth and progress in health conditions (as measured by the under 5 mortality rate) in Argentina in the years 1960-2003 is briefly analyzed. The paper concludes by discussing recent reports on scientific forecasts of the effects of climate change and some political conflicts triggered by those forecasts.