Health for all: the journey of universal health coverage

January 2018

Health for all: the journey of universal health coverage (2015), a publication of Centre for Global Health Histories CGHH’s  is based on the 2014 World Health Organization Global Health Histories seminar series on the same topic.

It gathers together all of the topics featured in 2014’s seminar series; the public health systems of The Sri Lanka, Mexico, South Africa and the UK.

Each country forms an independent chapter, each authored by academic researchers and WHO official. The articles are complemented by a centre spread of feature photographs selected from several repositories and highlighting important episodes and stories from the chapters. ‘Health for All’ is bilingual, in English and Portuguese side by side.

Read about public health in HCS-Manguinhos:

Ferreira, José Roberto et al. International cooperation in health: the case of Fiocruz. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2016, vol.23, no.2.

Silva, Renato da and Paiva, Carlos Henrique Assunção. The Juscelino Kubitschek government and the Brazilian Malaria Control and Eradication Working Group: collaboration and conflicts in Brazilian and international health agenda, 1958-1961Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1.

Hoefte, Rosemarijn. Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2014, vol.21, no.4.

Bernabeu-Mestre, Josep, Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia and Monerris, Angela Cremades. Environment and health with respect to a poverty-related disease: the epidemiology of trachoma in Spain, 1925-1941 Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2013, vol.20, no.4.

Löwy, Ilana. Cancer, women, and public health: the history of screening for cervical cancer. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, July 2010, vol.17, suppl.1

Martínez Antonio, Francisco Javier. Salud pública e Imperio en la España Isabelina (1833-1868): el caso de la sanidad militar. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2.

Castejón, Ramón, Perdiguero, Enrique and Ballester, Rosa. Los medios de comunicación al servicio de la lucha antivenérea y la protección de la salud materno-infantil (1900-50). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2006, vol.13, no.2.

Rodríguez de Romo, Ana Cecilia and Rodríguez Pérez, Martha Eugenia. Historia de la salud publica en México: siglos XIX y XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Oct 1998, vol.5, no.2.

Di Liscia, María Silvia. Hijos sanos y legítimos: sobre matrimonio y asistencia social en Argentina (1935-1948). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2002, vol.9.

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