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February 2007, Vol 97, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 218
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.103986

IMAGES OF HEALTH

The Polio Epidemic in Israel in the 1950s

Nava Blum, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Nava Blum is with the School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be addressed to Nava Blum, PhD, School of Public Health, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel (e-mail: navablum@hotmail.com).

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

THE FIRST GOVERNMENTAL rehabilitation services for children in Israel were created in the 1950s as a result of the polio epidemic of that period. The first physiotherapy school and the first government rehabilitation center for children in Israel were created in 1953 and 1954, respectively. Much of the support for these institutions came from 2 international organizations: the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF.1

The need for rehabilitation services had been recognized for some time as a result of immigration and the War of Independence, which lasted from 1947 to 1949. On May 15, 1948, after the British had withdrawn . . . [Full Text]






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