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The World Health Organization
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108728843
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.04.2019
Seiten:
390
Autor:
Marcos Cueto
Gewicht:
563 g
Format:
229x152x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Marcos Cueto is Professor of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro the main Brazilian biomedical institute, and is co-editor of the journal História, Ciências Saúde - Manguinhos. His book, co-authored with Steven Palmer, Medicine and Public Health in Latin America: A History (Cambridge, 2015) won the 2017 George Rosen award of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions.
Introduction; 1. The making of an international health establishment; 2. The birth of the World Health Organization, 1945-8; 3. The start-up years, 1948-55; 4. The Cold War and eradication; 5. Overcoming the warming of the Cold War: smallpox eradication; 6. The transition from 'family planning' to 'sexual and reproductive rights'; 7. The vicissitudes of primary health care; 8. The response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; 9. An embattled director-general and the persistence of the WHO; 10. The competitive world of global health; 11. The World Health Organization in the second decade of the twenty-first century.