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January 2008, Vol 98, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 42-43
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.119222

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The Bandoeng Conference of 1937: A Milestone in Health and Development

Theodore M. Brown, PhD and Elizabeth Fee, PhD

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History, and Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Reprint requests should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, PhD, History Department, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu).

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

INCREASINGLY REGARDED as a milestone event, the Bandoeng (also Bandung) Conference on Rural Hygiene, held in August 1937 in what is now the third-largest city in Indonesia, capped a surge of interwar interest in "rural hygiene" and in several ways foreshadowed the World Health Organization’s famous Alma Ata Conference and Declaration of September 1978.1,2 By the 1930s and largely under the leadership of the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO), rural hygiene had become a major focus in international health circles.3–5 It was a subject that drew attention to the overwhelming health needs of poor rural populations in Europe . . . [Full Text]




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