Abstract Economic development and good health depended on access to clean water and sanitation. Therefore, because economic development and good health depended on access to clean water and sanitation, beginning in the early 1970s the World Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), and others began a pe...
Abstract Global health is a multifaceted concept that entails the standardization of procedures in healthcare domains in accordance with a doctrine agreed upon by experts. This essay focus on the creation of health demonstration areas by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to establish core nodes for int...
Abstract From its inception, in 1948, the World Health Organization made control of malaria a high priority. Early successes led many to believe that eradication was possible, although there were serious doubts concerning the continent of Africa. As evidence mounted that eradicating malaria was not a sim...
Abstract Tracing the pathways of cooperation in health in sub-Saharan Africa from hesitant exchanges to institutionalized dimensions from the 1920s to the early 1960s, this article addresses regional dynamics in health diplomacy which have so far been under-researched. The evolution thereof from early be...
Abstract Within the framework of recent historiography about the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in modernizing public health and the multifaceted concept of global health, this study addresses the impact of the WHO's "country programs" in Spain from the time it was admitted to this organizat...
Abstract According to David Fidler, the governance of infectious diseases evolved from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century as a series of institutional arrangements: the International Sanitary Regulations (non-interference and disease control at borders), the World Health Organization vertical...
Asia,
Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles/historia,
Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles/métodos,
Europa (Continente),
Salud Global/historia,
Hospitales de Aislamiento/historia,
Malaria/historia,
Malaria/prevención & control,
Política,
Práctica de Salud Pública/historia,
Cuarentena/historia,
Organización Mundial de la Salud/historia
Abstract The subdiscipline of historical epidemiology holds the promise of creating a more robust and more nuanced foundation for global public health decision-making by deepening the empirical record from which we draw lessons about past interventions. This essay draws upon historical epidemiological re...
África,
Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles/historia,
Epidemiología/historia,
Salud Global/historia,
Promoción de la Salud/historia,
Fiebre Hemorrágica Ebola/historia,
Fiebre Hemorrágica Ebola/prevención & control,
Fiebre Hemorrágica Ebola/transmisión,
Infecciones por Uncinaria/historia,
Infecciones por Uncinaria/prevención & control,
Malaria/historia,
Malaria/prevención & control,
Práctica de Salud Pública/historia,
Organización Mundial de la Salud/historia
En el mundo actual la hipertensión arterial una de las enfermedades más comunes que afectan la salud humana, siendo patología y factor de riesgo importante para otras enfermedades, por lo que las estrategias de intervención de salud deben estar dirigidas, a la prevención primaria o de ocurrencia y a...
Hipertensión/epidemiología,
Presión Arterial,
Salud Global/tendencias,
Hipertensión/diagnóstico,
Hipertensión/complicaciones,
Hipertensión/prevención & control,
Hipertensión/terapia,
Organización Mundial de la Salud/historia,
Educación del Paciente como Asunto/métodos,
Educación del Paciente como Asunto/tendencias,
Factores de Riesgo,
Comentario
Este trabajo analisa las misiones de expertos de organismos sanitarios internacionales en España destinadas a informar sobre la situación, las actividades realizadas y las intervenciones necesarias en la lucha contra la discapacidad física de los niños. El Plan España-23 fue el instrumento utilizado...
