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December 2002, Vol 92, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 1888-1889
© 2002 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

100 Years of the Pan American Health Organization

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown

Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (email: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

This year we celebrate the Centennial of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).1 Born in 1902 as the International Sanitary Bureau, PAHO has gone through great transformations in its hundred-year history. From a small organization dominated by the United States Public Health Service, charged with rationalizing a complex set of quarantine regulations, it has become a genuinely international body. It now serves as the regional office of the World Health Organization, running large numbers of health, sanitary, environmental, nutritional, and social development programs, and expresses a commitment to health equity: not only equitable access to public health and health services, . . . [Full Text]




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