The World Health Organization : a history

The World Health Organization a history

According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistentl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Cueto, Marcos, 1957- autor (autor), Brown, Theodore M., 1942- autor, Fee, Elizabeth, autor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press 2019.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Global health histories.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39779701*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The making of an international health establishment
  • The birth of the World Health Organization, 1945
  • 1948
  • The start-up years 1948
  • 1955
  • The Cold War and eradication
  • Overcoming the warming of the Cold War : smallpox eradication
  • The transition from family planning to sexual and reproductive rights
  • The vicissitudes of primary health care
  • The response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic
  • An embattled Director-General and the persistence of the WHO
  • The competitive world of global health
  • The World Health Organization in the second decade of the 21st century.

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