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April 2008, Vol 98, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 630-633
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.132449

IMAGES OF HEALTH

WHO at 60: Snapshots From Its First Six Decades

Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Marcos Cueto, PhD and Theodore M. Brown, PhD

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Marcos Cueto is with the Faculdad de Salud Pública, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38, Room 1E-21, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: feee@mail.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

WHEN WE THINK OF THE WORLD Health Organization (WHO), a number of dramatic moments and milestones leap to mind: the launching of the new international health organization in 1948 with the stirring preamble to its constitution; the visionary Alma Ata Declaration of 1978; the announcement in 1980 of the eradication of smallpox, the first disease to be eliminated in human history1; Jonathan Mann’s effective leadership of WHO’s international campaign against HIV/AIDS2; and WHO’s swift responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian flu before these could grow into global pandemics.3,4 In this "Images of Health" column, we . . . [Full Text]






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