Armed conflict, disease and death: health in the Caste War (Yucatán, Mexico) in the second half of the nineteenth century

Abstract

An analysis of the relationship between health and war in the context of the Caste War in Yucatan, Mexico, during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using qualitative and quantitative sources, this article reconstructs the main critical health events and argues that the health/disease process at the time can necessarily only be explained in relation to variables connected to the conflict, such as arms trafficking, displacements, diasporas and migrations, food shortages, violence and administrative chaos.

health; war; epidemics; health/disease; mortality