IDSB04H3 Lecture : ch 13
7 Dec 2010
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N focusing on societal change through the lens of political economy, these approaches provide a counterbalance to mainstream efforts in global health. The disease control conception of international health: its successes and limitations. International campaigns could aid or impede the making of healthy societies. N the problem of anemia-inducing hookworm was addressed in some areas through latrine- building, promotion of shoe-wearing; yellow fever through extensive antilarval efforts, and then later a vaccine. The global eradication of small pox in the 1980s was the most notable, based on aggressive immunization campaign, has been one of the single greatest feats of international public policy. N however, the eradication of malaria was more problematic. Campaign in 1955 which exclusively involved the use of ddt to eradicate malaria meant that 1 billion people were no longer threatened by malaria within a few years only.
