Lessons of History? Anti-Malaria Strategies of the International Health Board and the Rockefeller Foundation from the 1920s to the Era of DDT

A rich source for understanding the potentials and pitfalls of anti-malaria strategies is the history of two Rockefeller-endowed entities, the International Health Board and the Rockefeller Foundation, that created new approaches to malaria control in the first half of the 20th century. There is a d...

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Published in:Public health reports (1974) 2004-03, Vol.119 (2), p.206-215
Main Author: Stapleton, Darwin H.
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Africa, Northern
Archives
DDT - history
Disease control
Europe
Foundations - history
History of medicine
History, 20th Century
Humans
India
Insect larvae
Insect vectors
Insecticides
Italy
Malaria
Malaria - history
Malaria - prevention & control
Mexico
Mosquito Control - history
Mosquitos
Philippines
Public health
Public Health - history
Public Health Chronicles
South America
Spraying
Typhus
United States
World Health Organization
World wars
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Insecticides
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Public Health Chronicles
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Spraying
Typhus
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World Health Organization
World wars
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