In Spain, hookworm was antecedent recognised as a miners’ disease, fitting the use of one of the most happy interventions in accepted health from 1912 to 1931. Hookworm further played a stuff in the growing concernment in rural health problems that peaked during the Republican space (1931–6). The objective of this glance at was to compare the philosophy and content of common health interventions against rural hookworm in Spain before the Civil Contest (1936–9) with those of interventions after the war.

Review of published and unpublished documents on hookworm produced by express physicians and general health officials in the fundamental half of the 20th century.

Rural hookworm foci detected in pre-war age were explained in terms of the geographical and human field and particularly attributed to impecunious working and living conditions, prompting particular health campaigns. Virgin rural foci were detected after the war, nevertheless this chronology the health polity did not intervene. Sensitive of the disease changed, its collision on reproduction was highlighted and medical explanations pointed to the cynical good conditions of peasants rather than social issues.

Civil Strife brought rupture and continuity to the universal health domain. Although the Francoist health government preserved analogous organization patterns, its familiarity was governed by contrastive priorities. Correct and much devout positions if a target for what had been formerly explained in social and environmental terms. This approach, well-adjusted with the insight of hookworm as evidence of backwardness, led to authenticated neglect of the condition, which was all the more prevalent in some rural areas.