Socrates Litsios
Biographic Data
| ID | 6059571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Socrates Litsios |
| GIVEN NAMES | Socrates |
| FAMILY NAME | Litsios |
| SIGNATURE | LITSIOS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The author is retired from the World Health Organization. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bandoeng Conference of 1937
Readers might be interested to learn that it was Selskar Gunn who wrote the introduction to the Bandoeng Conference report highlighted in the January 2008 issue of the Journal.1,2 Gunn, who was vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation at the time, was in charge of a rural reconstruction project in China.3 Much of what he included in the introduction reflects the multisectoral nature of his project, in particular the position taken that those …
Selskar Gunn and China: The Rockefeller Foundation's "Other" Approach to Public Health
The Rockefeller Foundation's program for rural development in China was developed by Selskar Gunn during the period 1932–34 and was initiated in 1935. It was multidisciplinary in nature, and its aim was to raise the educational, social, and economic standards of rural China. It was recognized by some at the time as an alternative to the International Health Division's approach to public health. This paper describes the program, what led Gunn to d…
The Politics of the Healthy Life: An International Perspective (review)
Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña, ed. The Politics of the Healthy Life: An International Perspective. History of Medicine, Health, and Disease Series. Sheffield, U.K.: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Publications, 2002. ix + 288 pp. £19.95 (EAMH members), £41.22 (nonmembers, U.S.A.), £34.95 (nonmembers, U.K.), £37.92 (nonmembers, Europe), £41.86 (nonmembers, elsewhere) (0-9536522-5-4)
The Christian Medical Commission and the Development of the World Health Organization’s Primary Health Care Approach
The primary health care approach was introduced to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board in January 1975. In this article, I describe the changes that occurred within WHO leading up to the executive board meeting that made it possible for such a radical approach to health services to emerge when it did. I also describe the lesser-known developments that were taking place in the Christian Medical Commission at the same time, developm…
William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920)
ONE MORNING IN 1882, William Gorgas, then a medical officer at Fort Brown, an Army Base in Texas, was told that he would be reading the burial service for Miss Doughty that afternoon. Marie Cook Doughty had come down with yellow fever the week before, and having suffered an attack of black vomiting the previous night was not expected to live much longer. Her grave was dug but to the amazement of all she recovered.Two days later, Gorgas himself wa…
The Christian Medical Commission and the Development of the World Health Organization’s Primary Health Care Approach
The primary health care approach was introduced to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board in January 1975. In this article, I describe the changes that occurred within WHO leading up to the executive board meeting that made it possible for such a radical approach to health services to emerge when it did. I also describe the lesser-known developments that were taking place in the Christian Medical Commission at the same time, developm…
William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920)
ONE MORNING IN 1882, William Gorgas, then a medical officer at Fort Brown, an Army Base in Texas, was told that he would be reading the burial service for Miss Doughty that afternoon. Marie Cook Doughty had come down with yellow fever the week before, and having suffered an attack of black vomiting the previous night was not expected to live much longer. Her grave was dug but to the amazement of all she recovered.Two days later, Gorgas himself wa…
William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920)
ONE MORNING IN 1882, William Gorgas, then a medical officer at Fort Brown, an Army Base in Texas, was told that he would be reading the burial service for Miss Doughty that afternoon. Marie Cook Doughty had come down with yellow fever the week before, and having suffered an attack of black vomiting the previous night was not expected to live much longer. Her grave was dug but to the amazement of all she recovered.Two days later, Gorgas himself wa…
The Politics of the Healthy Life: An International Perspective (review)
Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña, ed. The Politics of the Healthy Life: An International Perspective. History of Medicine, Health, and Disease Series. Sheffield, U.K.: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Publications, 2002. ix + 288 pp. £19.95 (EAMH members), £41.22 (nonmembers, U.S.A.), £34.95 (nonmembers, U.K.), £37.92 (nonmembers, Europe), £41.86 (nonmembers, elsewhere) (0-9536522-5-4)
The Christian Medical Commission and the Development of the World Health Organization’s Primary Health Care Approach
The primary health care approach was introduced to the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board in January 1975. In this article, I describe the changes that occurred within WHO leading up to the executive board meeting that made it possible for such a radical approach to health services to emerge when it did. I also describe the lesser-known developments that were taking place in the Christian Medical Commission at the same time, developm…
Selskar Gunn and China: The Rockefeller Foundation's "Other" Approach to Public Health
The Rockefeller Foundation's program for rural development in China was developed by Selskar Gunn during the period 1932–34 and was initiated in 1935. It was multidisciplinary in nature, and its aim was to raise the educational, social, and economic standards of rural China. It was recognized by some at the time as an alternative to the International Health Division's approach to public health. This paper describes the program, what led Gunn to d…
Bandoeng Conference of 1937
Readers might be interested to learn that it was Selskar Gunn who wrote the introduction to the Bandoeng Conference report highlighted in the January 2008 issue of the Journal.1,2 Gunn, who was vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation at the time, was in charge of a rural reconstruction project in China.3 Much of what he included in the introduction reflects the multisectoral nature of his project, in particular the position taken that those …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Management (2 works) · Public Health Policies and Education (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)