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BERNABEU-MESTRE, Josep; TRESCASTRO LOPEZ, Eva María  e  MARTINEZ ROSILLO, María Cruz. The social and sanitary dimension of hunger: the testimony of José María Bengoa Lecanda (1913-2010). An Venez Nutr [online]. 2014, vol.27, n.1, pp.21-25. ISSN 0798-0752.

Some of the conceptual elements through which professor José María Bengoa Lecanda (1913-2010) approached the complexity of factors associated with hunger are analysed. Specifically, his reflections on the interrelation between undernourishment, disease and poverty are studied, as well as his proposals to break said circle. From the assumptions of social medicine, doctor Bengoa articulates a discourse where social inequalities appear as one of the key factors to explain the social and health differences between regions, populations and individuals. Social change, with education as the main argument, and the improvement of life conditions for the population, were claimed by doctor Bengoa as the most appropriate strategies to address malnutrition in any of its forms.

Palavras-chave : Hunger; undernourishment; malnutrition; social inequalities; poverty; social medicine; José María Bengoa.

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