The Value Of Health Book

Foreword     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     3
The Origins of International Public Health in the Americas     11
Maritime Public Health in the Old and New Worlds     11
The Rise of Export Economies and the Institutionalization of Pan Americanism     18
The Era of Walter Wyman     22
The Control of Urban Yellow Fever     29
The Birth of a New Organization     39
The First Sanitary Meetings     39
The Second Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Rupert Blue     52
The Consolidation of an Identity     59
The Hugh S. Cumming Years     59
The Permanence of a Code     63
The Conferences of the 1930s and the Second World War     72
The Origins of the World Health Organization     82
For a Continent Free of Disease     91
Fred L. Soper and the Cold War     91
The Growth of the Organization     98
Eradication as Doctrine     109
The Warrior's Rest     118
Health, Development, and Community Participation     121
Abraham Horwitz, the First Latin American Director     122
A Building and New Programs     131
PrimaryHealth Care     136
The Victories over Smallpox and Poliomyelitis     141
Validity and Renewal     147
Endnotes     155
Bibliography     189
Index     230