Films in Spanish Health Education: The Case of Child Health (1928–1936)

rom the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century the fledgling Spanish public health services were keen to cope with collective health issues by means of educating the general public. Therefore, in addition to the more traditional methods such as conferences and educational talks, the services also began to use the mass media. The earliest medium was the poster and then in the 1920s, the decade which produced the consolidation of public health services, there also arose the possibility of using new media such as the radio and the cinema, which were considered as powerful tools for the F