Implementing a Global Health Programme
Smallpox and Nepal
Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7666-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7666-0 (ISBN)
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This book explores the topical issue of implementing a global vaccination programme. Focusing on smallpox, it explores why despite overwhelming challenges it succeeded in Nepal. Placing the country and people’s perspectives at the centre, it offers an alternative to the top-down and centre-led standard narrative of the global smallpox programme. -- .
Worldwide eradication of the devastating viral disease of smallpox was devised as a distant global policy, but success depended on implementing a global vaccination programme within nation states. How this was achieved remains relevant and topical for responding to today’s global communicable disease challenges. The small and poor Himalayan kingdom of Nepal faced enormous geographical and infrastructure challenges if it was going to succeed in a nationwide vaccination programme. This book acknowledges the key role of the WHO but disrupts the top-down, centre-led standard narrative. Against a background of widespread internal political and social change, Nepal’s programme was expanded, effectively decentralised and a vaccination strategy introduced that aligned with people’s beliefs. Few foreign personnel were involved. -- .
Worldwide eradication of the devastating viral disease of smallpox was devised as a distant global policy, but success depended on implementing a global vaccination programme within nation states. How this was achieved remains relevant and topical for responding to today’s global communicable disease challenges. The small and poor Himalayan kingdom of Nepal faced enormous geographical and infrastructure challenges if it was going to succeed in a nationwide vaccination programme. This book acknowledges the key role of the WHO but disrupts the top-down, centre-led standard narrative. Against a background of widespread internal political and social change, Nepal’s programme was expanded, effectively decentralised and a vaccination strategy introduced that aligned with people’s beliefs. Few foreign personnel were involved. -- .
Susan Heydon is an Associate Professor in Social Pharmacy at the University of Otago -- .
Introduction
1 Writing Nepal into global smallpox history
2 Smallpox in Nepal
3 Nepal - A nation state
4 1963–64: Epidemic smallpox
5 Engaging global policy - From control to eradication
6 Vaccination and global strategies
7 A time of transition
8 Expanding nationwide
9 Success
Conclusion: Implementing a global health programme - and making it work -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Histories of Medicine |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Maps |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7666-1 / 1526176661 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7666-0 / 9781526176660 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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