In the 1920s, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) initiated public health work in a number of locations in the Indian Ocean region. It represented the RF’s global vision for public health underscored by a belief in the promotion of preventive care through demonstration and education, particularly in regions that were considered to be underdeveloped.1 Lt. Col. Walter King, a former Sanitary Commissioner of Madras, had lamented that in India, “education by practical demonstration of sanitary works for the community has been grossly neglected in the rural areas” and blamed the government, educated elected representatives of the local bodies, and the military-oriented and European-dominated Indian Medical Service (IMS) for this state of affairs.2 The RF program, which consisted of an anti-hookworm campaign and demonstration rural health units that were to serve as the vanguard of a public health system focused on preventive health, sanitation, health education, and community participation, addressed an important lacuna in Indian public health.
...MoreBook Anna Winterbottom; Facil Tesfaye (2016) Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two: The Modern Period.
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