The value of health : a history of the Pan American Health Organization / Marcos Cueto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cueto, Marcos.

Series:

Scientific and technical publication (Washington, D.C.) ; no. 600.

Scientific and technical publication ; no. 600

Standardized Title:

Valor de la salud. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Pan American Health Organization--History.

Pan American Health Organization.

Public Health Administration--history.

History.

Latin America.

United States.

History, 20th Century.

History, 21st Century.

International Agencies--history.

Public Health--history.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health Administration--history.

Latin America.

United States.

History, 20th Century.

History, 21st Century.

International Agencies--history.

Public Health--history.

Physical Description:

x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

History of the Pan American Health Organization

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, 2007.

Summary:

A multilayered analytical study that situates the Pan American Health Organization in a complex and shifting historical context and examines the internal dynamics of the organization in a probing critical fashion.

Contents:

1 The Origins of International Public Health in the Americas 11

Maritime Public Health in the Old and New Worlds 11

The Rise of Export Economies and the Institutionalization of Pan Americanism 18

The Era of Walter Wyman 22

The Control of Urban Yellow Fever 29

2 The Birth of a New Organization 39

The First Sanitary Meetings 39

The Second Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Rupert Blue 52

3 The Consolidation of an Identity 59

The Hugh S. Cumming Years 59

The Permanence of a Code 63

The Conferences of the 1930s and the Second World War 72

The Origins of the World Health Organization 82

4 For a Continent Free of Disease 91

Fred L. Soper and the Cold War 91

The Growth of the Organization 98

Eradication as Doctrine 109

The Warrior's Rest 118

5 Health, Development, and Community Participation 121

Abraham Horwitz, the First Latin American Director 122

A Building and New Programs 131

Primary Health Care 136

The Victories over Smallpox and Poliomyelitis 141

6 Validity and Renewal 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-229) and index.

Translated from the Spanish.

ISBN:

1580462634

9781580462631

OCLC:

73993834