The World Health Organization and global smallpox eradication
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The World Health Organization and global smallpox eradication
BACKGROUND This article examines the multifaceted structures and complex operations of the World Health Organization and its regional offices; it also reassesses the form and the workings of the global smallpox eradication programme with which these bodies were closely linked in the 1960s and 1970s. METHODS Using the case study of South Asia, it seeks to highlight the importance of writing nu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.055590