League of Nations Quarterly Bulletin of Health Organisation

Public Health Intelligence of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations

Sir,?May I through the courtesy of your columns bring to the notice of the Public Health Administrators the facilities that exist in the Health Organisation of the League of Nations for the supply of information relating to the detailed application of different Public Health methods in various countries. In addition comparative information is available with regard to Epidemiological Statistics ...

Health policy in interwar Greece: the intervention by the League of Nations Health Organisation.

The first serious attempts to deal with public health problems in Greece were undertaken between 1925 and 1935. This period also witnessed setbacks to developments in public health, caused by the lack of welfare infrastructure for social relief, as well as extensive health problems brought about by the settlement in Greece of 1,300,000 refugees from Asia Minor. In 1928 following the example set...

Bulletin of the Health Organization, League of Nations. Vol. XII, No. 1, 1945-46

Crisis as opportunity: international health work during the economic depression.

The economic depression of the 1930s represented the most important economic and social crisis of its time. Surprisingly, its effect on health did not show in available morbidity and mortality rates. In 1932, the League of Nations Health Organisation embarked on a six-point program addressing statistical methods of measuring the effect and its influence on mental health and nutrition and establ...

[The League of Nations Health Organization and the rise of Latin American participation, 1920-40].

The League of Nations Health Organization collaborated with Latin American specialists in public health and infectious diseases from the early 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. The League developed studies of infant health and nutrition, and leprosy. The approach was expert-oriented, and designed to develop public health on a scientific basis. There were conferences, tours and repo...