HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Pan American Health Organization, Tropical Medicine, World Health Organization
29 Nov 2018
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Epidemics: international sanitary commission - 1851, followed by. Led to the office of international hygiene publique - 1907, paris. Created to disseminate information and supervise international quarantine measures. Continued until 1950 with about 60 members when taken over by the who. There was also the pan american health organization. Goal: to control epidemics of diseases and compare the statistics from one country to the next. Standardised classification of disease, so when the british looked at their statistics, they would understand what the french meant by their statistics. Private initiative: international statistical institute, the un became involved. 1983 - the first international conference for the development of international list of causes of death. Standard classification of disease when writing death certificates or understanding mortality patterns. Had colonies all over the world, particularly in africa and asia. Health in these colonies was mainly about trying to preserve the health of the colonizers.
