Local health policies under the microscope: consultants, experts, international missions and poliomyelitis in Spain, 1950-1975.
One of the main focuses of analysis of this paper concerns the missions of international health agency experts to Spain to report on the situation, the activities in the fight against physical disabilities in children and on the actions taken to cope with the problem. The Spain-23 Plan was the instrument used by WHO and other agencies to start the process of change in a country undergoing a period of transformation under the enduring Franco dictatorship. As key sources, the paper uses unpublished reports of WHO experts on the subject, which resulted from visits to the country between 1950 and 1975. The methodological approach consists of an analysis of discourses from primary sources within the historiographical framework.
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Miguel Hernández, San Juan de Alicante, ES, rosa.ballester@umh.es.
Rosa
R
Ballester
Facultad de Medicina de Ciudad Real, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, ES, mariaisabel.porras@uclm.es.
María Isabel
MI
Porras
Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia "López Piñero", Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, ES, m.jose.baguena@uv.es.
María José
MJ
Báguena
D002648:Child; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000266:history / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008493:Medical Missions / Q000266:history*; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011056:Political Systems / Q000266:history; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014944:World Health Organization / Q000266:history