Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive, 2009
Chagas' disease is an endemic parasitic illness in the American continent, affecting around 1... more Chagas' disease is an endemic parasitic illness in the American continent, affecting around 16 to 18 million people. Given that 9.5% of immigrants to Italy are from Latin America and that the infection can be transmitted in non-endemic countries congenitally by organ donations and blood transfusions, Chagas disease should be regarded as an emerging public health problem in Italy. Clinical guidelines as well as health protocols are needed to deal with this rarely recognized disease.
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growing migration flows turned the disease into an
‘emergent’ topic in the scientific debate, particularly in Europe. In Italy, the emergence of such a disease poses key questions related to the complexity that informs the construction of concepts such as health and illness at the crossroad of migration processes: who plays a role in shaping the disease representation and in determining its priorities? What are the prevention and control measures adopted and their impact on people's health? Is it possible to address neglected diseases through an active promotion of the neglected populations’ health? Moving from a life history collected within an ethnographic research, the present contribution proposes suggestions that move from theoretical and methodological approaches of both global health and medical anthropology.