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A History of Global Health (Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples)

Full title: A History of Global Health (Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples)
ISBN: 9781421420325
ISBN 10: 1421420325
Authors: Packard, Randall M.
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Edition: 1
Num. pages: 432
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2016

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Synopsis

Colonial training grounds -- From colonial to international health -- The League of Nations Health Organization -- Internationalizing rural hygiene and nutrition -- Planning for a postwar world : the legacy of social medicine -- A narrowing vision : international health, technology, and cold war politics -- Uncertain beginnings -- The good and bad campaigns -- The birth of the population crisis -- Accelerating international family planning programs -- Rethinking family planning -- Rethinking health, 2.0 : the rise of primary health care -- Challenges to primary health care -- AIDS and the birth of global health -- The global fund, PEPFAR and the transformation of global health -- The medicalization of global health. Randall M. Packard. Includes bibliographical references and index.