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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Jul 28, 2005
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Uruguay on the World Stage: How Child Health Became an International Priority

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, ScD, MA



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FIGURE 1— International comparisons of infant mortality rate,1893–1953.

 


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FIGURE 2— Stamp commemorating the 100 years since Dr. Luis Morquio became the Chair of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine at Uruguay’s University of the Republic. Bottom right corner includes the statue of Morquio with a child that stands along one of Montevideo’s main boulevards. The stamp was designed by Daniel Pereyra. (Courtesy Administración Nacional de Correos, Uruguay.)

 


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FIGURE 3— Paulina Luisi, Uruguay’s first female doctor, with her Faculty of Medicine classmates in September 1901. (Photo courtesy of the Department of History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay.)

 


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FIGURE 4— Annotated version of Uruguay’s Children’s Code.

 





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