Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T22:18:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Agres Roberta Oliveira das Neves.pdf: 901830 bytes, checksum: 795e50a65545e632f4b21c64f570c601 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-28 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / The creation of the National Department of Public Health in 1920 was a landmark in relation to the organization of public services in the area of health in Brazil, amongst the strategies created for the promotion of health, was the creation of the Sanitation Administration and Agricultural Prophylaxis whose objective was to develop projects of action mainly against the agricultural endemic diseases that devastated the population. The present research has as its general objective to study the development of the Social Program of Sanitation and Agricultural Prophylaxis in the Amazon, and its development for the sanitary service of the state from the period of 1920 to 1923, whose executive arm had been the Campaigns Sanitations and Agricultural Prophylaxis disease. / A criação do Departamento Nacional de Saúde Pública, em 1920, foi um marco em relação à organização de serviços públicos na área de saúde no Brasil. Dentre as estratégias criadas para a promoção da saúde estava a criação da Diretoria de Saneamento e Profilaxia Rural, cujo objetivo era desenvolver projetos de ação principalmente contra as endemias rurais que assolavam a população. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral estudar o desenvolvimento do Programa Social de Saneamento e Profilaxia Rural no Amazonas, e seus desdobramentos para o serviço sanitário do estado, no período de 1920 a 1923, cujo braço executivo foram as Campanhas de Saneamento e Profilaxia Rural.