Collective corn grinding in Acauã, Piauí, Brazil, 2004
Courtesy Aaron Ansell
A revolution in global health is taking place in villages and towns around the world. Communities, in collaboration with scientists, advocates, governments, and international organizations, are taking up the challenge to prevent disease and improve quality of life.
Recognizing all the factors that cause illness, they are working on a wide range of issues—from community health to conflict, disease to discrimination. The people who face these problems play an important role in their resolution, and each of us can participate in the search for solutions. As we learn more about the challenges of the past, we join a growing community of people committed to global health.
As the stories here show, we can draw upon a legacy of success, often based on the simplest means. Visit the project websiteand meet the stories!
Visiting a clinic, Ecuador, 2005
Courtesy PAHO/WHO
The project is divided into six topics : Community Health, Food for Life, Action on Aids, The Legacy of War, Preventing Diseases and Global Collaboration.
Click here to check the website.
Read in HCS-Manguinhos about Global Health:
Armus, Diego. Washington y Ginebra llegan a Buenos Aires: notas sobre la historia del hábito de fumar y su medicalización. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.293-302. ISSN 0104-5970
Pires-Alves, Fernando A. and Maio, Marcos Chor. Health at the dawn of development: the thought of Abraham Horwitz. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.69-93. ISSN 0104-5970
Cueto, Marcos. La “cultura de la sobrevivencia” y la salud pública internacional en América Latina: la Guerra Fría y la erradicación de enfermedades a mediados del siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.255-273. ISSN 0104-5970
Cueto, Marcos, EDITOR’S LETTER. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.10-12. ISSN 0104-5970
