Bhattacharya, Sanjoy orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-4047 (2008) Multifaceted contributions:health workers and smallpox eradication in India. Ciencia & saude coletiva. pp. 955-964. ISSN 1413-8123
Abstract
Smallpox eradication in South Asia was a result of the efforts of many grades of health-workers. Working from within the confines of international organisations and government structures, the role of the field officials, who were of various nationalities and also drawn from the cities and rural enclaves of the countries in these regions, was crucial to the development and deployment of policies. However, the role of these personnel is often downplayed in official histories and academic histories, which highlight instead the roles played by a handful of senior officials within the World Health Organization and the federal governments in the sub-continent. This article attempts to provide a more rounded assessment of the complex situation in the field. In this regard, an effort is made to underline the great usefulness of the operational flexibility displayed by field officers, wherein lessons learnt in the field were made an integral part of deploying local campaigns; careful engagement with the communities being targeted, as well as the employment of short term workers from amongst them, was an important feature of this work.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This article is based on research carried out through a Wellcome Trust-funded project |
Keywords: | Smallpox eradication,South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization, Immunisation,Vaccination, World Health Organization |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2013 15:02 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-81232008000300017 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1590/S1413-81232008000300017 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:67811 |
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Description: Contibuicoes multifacetadas: trabalhadores da saude e a erradicacao da variola na India’, Ciencia & Saude Coletiva (ABRASO, Associacao Brasileira de Pos-Graducao em Saude Coletiva: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil), Volume 13, Numero 3, Maio/Junho 2008, pp. 955-964