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that is, improvements that dealt with living conditions
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across a broad spectrum of diseases.
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We've seen that in the sanitary movement.
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In the tropics, instead,
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metropolitan powers applied a different vision
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of what was called vertical hygiene, or tropical hygiene.
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Now, vertical campaigns of public health
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targeted instead single diseases,
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and they were designed to protect, above all,
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Europeans against the most menacing epidemics.
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That was tropical hygiene, then;
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something different from what was practiced