关键词:
Developing Countries
Financing, Government
Health Policy/economics
Health Policy/economics
Health Services/economics
Humans
Public Health/economics
World Health
World Health Organization
摘要:
Throughout the 20th century, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored campaigns against endemic infections: hookworm, yellow fever, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, malaria, among others. Rockefeller campaigns interpreted these infections as an impediment to labour productivity, investment, and economic development.20,21 Such programmes recognised that endemic infections blocked key infrastructure projects needed to extract raw materials and to transport products and workers throughout the world. After the example of yellow fever and the Panama Canal, these interventions aimed to improve the economic circumstances of enterprises in the imperial countries by improving the health of the imperialised.