Topic
International health research, explained
5 open-access international health studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- How WHO pictured community health workers after Alma-Ata
Medcalf and Nunes show WHO used photo stories of CHWs to sell “Health for All,” but idealised images later collided with Selective PHC and implementation failure.
- Smallpox eradication began before 1967
Bhattacharya and Campani argue that worldwide smallpox eradication was a two-decade, multi-actor programme, not a mid-1960s CDC diffusion story.
- How did WHO-era BCG reach the Caribbean?
After European emergency BCG drives, UNICEF and WHO inherited a mass-vaccination machine that then ran relatively successful campaigns across British Caribbean colonies.
- How Spanish Civil War blood reached Prague
Brasó Broggi and Bortlová-Vondráková show that Holubec carried Duran Jordà's stored-blood method from Republican Spain to Czechoslovakia, where it persisted into the 1950s before Soviet isolation overlaid it.
- How was river-blindness success built?
Winters argues that OCP triumph narratives were actively assembled from metrics, statues, staged photos, and Bank publicity, even while transmission really did fall in indicator villages.