Implementing a Global Health Programme : Smallpox and Nepal
by
Susan Heydon
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Social Histories of Medicine
ISBN-10
1526176661
ISBN-13
9781526176660
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 18th, 2025
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
518 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.40 x 2.40 cms
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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 todays 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, Nepals programme was expanded, effectively decentralised and a vaccination strategy introduced that aligned with peoples beliefs. Few foreign personnel were involved.
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