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The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937-1978

The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937-1978

Neelakantan, Vivek

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceGeneral World HistorySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 3032212324
ISBN13: 9783032212320
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Examining the emergence of international public health policy between the 1930s and 80s, this book sheds light on the role that rural community health initiatives in South and Southeast Asia played in the movement towards 'primary health care' and 'health for all, ' articulated ultimately at the 1978 International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The author argues that the movement was not directed exclusively from the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, but also by institutions such as the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Division in rural Southeast Asia, and through local community initiatives including the Bandung Plan for Health in Indonesia. The book illustrates how an exclusive association of global health with the emergence of the WHO in the 1950s fails to account for the local, national, or regional contexts that shaped the evolution of primary health care in South and Southeast Asia.

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