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J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:1 doi:10.1136/jech.57.1.1-a
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A homage to Dr Bengoa: the world’s conscience of community nutrition

  1. Encarna Gascón Pérez
  1. Public Health Department, Alicante University, Spain; gascon.dsp@ua.es

      Dr Jose María Bengoa, 88 years old, was designated as one of the Public Health Heroes of the Americas by the PAHO, last February in Caracas (Venezuela). His own words referring to this distinction were . . . “ My only merit has been having reached an old age after working for 65 years in public health!! There have been more people that have deserved it as well…”. His work is …

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