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Cueto, Marcos,

The World Health Organization : a history / Marcos Cueto, Theodore M. Brown, Elizabeth Fee. - 373P.; 20cm. - Global health histories . - Global health histories (Series) .

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9781108483575 (hardback) 9781108728843 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2018047191

Subjects--Corporate Names:
World Health Organization.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Global Health
International Agencies--history
Health Policy--history
Health Services Administration--history
Disease Eradication--history
International Cooperation--history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century

LC Class. No.: RA441 / .C84 2019