Article ID: CBB001211095

La Asociación Europea contra la Poliomielitis y los programas europeos de vacunación (2012)

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Porras, María Isabel (Author)
Báguena Cervellera, María José (Author)
Ballester, Rosa (Author)
de las Heras, Jaime (Author)


Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 32, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 287-310


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “Policies, Social Responses and Associationist Movements against Poliomyelitis: The European Experience (1940--1975)”

The search for a European response to the problem posed by the outbreak of poliomyelitis in the middle decades of the 20th century resulted in the creation in 1951 of a new organization, the European Association against Poliomyelitis. The internal working mechanisms and the international connections of this Association, in particular with the WHO, were subsidiaries of a specific socio-political context that encouraged this type of consortia. The activities developed by this organization in the 18 years of its existence were decisive for both the articulation and success achieved by European national policies of massive immunization campaigns against the disease.

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Authors & Contributors
Wylie, Caitlin Donahue
Wilson, Daniel J.
Willrich, Michael
Seco Calvo, J.
Rodríguez Sánchez, Juan Antonio
Reinhardt, Robert Holbrook
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Vaccines; vaccination
Epidemics
Smallpox
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Europe
Brazil
England
Guatemala
Americas
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
UNICEF
World Bank
United Nations
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
Rockefeller Foundation
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