Abstract
In this chapter, the authors present the current situation and the legislation produced as well as efforts done by medical doctors at the end of the 19th century in order to introduce hygiene as a natural as well as a cultural way of preserving physical health as well as mental health. The work done by doctors supported a general development of economic life as well as it saved the Portuguese society before laboratories took over our bodily management.
TopMain Focus: The Covid-19 Pandemic, And Health For Citizens And Tourists
The useful and practical lodging activity and sympathetic ways of caring from which such a significant Portuguese economic activity depends, has its own roots on a deep need felt by those social groups with a relatively comfortable income to follow a capable direction to conduct them to health problems solutions. Therefore, it’s according with an opposition line between diseases that caused pain, general weakness and suffering and the proper cure conditions, well-being and health that strategic creation and development of one of the strongest economic activities started its structuring and tourism became a reality in this country.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Hygiene: Hygienic measures, taken by public policies and legislation, include the return to nature, as one major solution to recover health.
Vaccine: Until a safe vaccine against COVID-19 was produced, public reactions went back to the same basic health fears known in the past, when science was far from giving answers to serious health problems.
COVID-19: Corona virus and pandemics are phenomena that have ancestors. E.g., it is possible to make equivalences between reactions to COVID-19 at the 21th century and health fears as some of the main reactions to disease between the 18th century and the 19th century in Portugal.
Medical Guidance: This strategy, including hygiene and vaccines , among other public and private measures, proved to be fundamental, and also provided some of the main conditions for tourism development.
Health Fear: This process may appear as a terrifying sense of danger felt by the population, in addition to the lack of an immediate scientific solution to such problem.