title: Crisis as opportunity: international health work during the economic depression.
abstract: 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 establishing ways to safeguard public health through more efficient health systems. Some of these studies resulted in considerations of general relevance beyond crisis management. Unexpectedly, the crisis offered an opportunity to reconsider key concepts of individual and public health.
authors.affiliation: Historical Institute, University of Rostock. iris.borowy@uni-rostock.de
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Borowy
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D014943:Global Health; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies / Q000191:economics* / Q000266:history*; D007391:International Cooperation / Q000266:history; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D014478:Unemployment / Q000266:history