Abstract
This article studies the shift from a Ministry of Hygiene in Colombia to a Ministry of Public Health, from 1946 to 1953. This was not only a new name for the ministry, but a transitional process from government policies based on European public hygiene towards institutionalizing the North American model of public health. The process involved negotiations between local government representatives and the Currie Mission, which was sent to Colombia by the Inter-American Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Inter-American Cooperative Health Service. These negotiations took place via asymmetrical relationships of interdependence, within the framework of the “invisible government” implemented by the United States in Latin America during the Cold War.
| Translated title of the contribution | El nacimiento de un Ministerio de Salud Pública en Colombia, 1946-1953: Guerra Fría, gobierno invisible e interdependencia asimétrica |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 461-480 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Cold War
- Colombia
- Ministry of Health
- history
- invisible government
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