title: [International policy (and the local response) and health in Brazil: the Special Public Health Service, 1942-1960].
abstract: This article analyzes the Special Public Health Service (SESP), a Brazilian-American agency created in 1942. Envisioned by the United States as a temporary wartime organization, SESP was transformed into an instrument of expansion of Brazilian state authority via the interactions around and Brazilian responses to these activities. After 1945, SESP reoriented its aims and became a structured organization consisting of a permanent horizontal network of health units linked to the Brazilian government's nation-building project. Notwithstanding their international origins, SESP's health policies involved not only the importation of a US model to Brazil but also projects marked by adaptation to the local reality.
authors.affiliation: l'Université du Texas a Austin, USA.
authors.forename: André Luiz Vieira
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: de Campos
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006077:Government Agencies / Q000266:history; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation / Q000266:history*; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States