Elizabeth Fee

TL;DR: This analysis of the global workforce proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries.

TL;DR: It is argued that WHO began to refashion itself as the coordinator, strategic planner, and leader of global health initiatives as a strategy of survival in response to this transformed international political context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times, such as: How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future - in particular, what does the history of medical science and public health tell us about our ability to control the epidemic and eventually to cure the disease?

TL;DR: It is hoped this review will motivate public health workers to make common cause with social activists and to encourage social activists to ally with public health professionals.

TL;DR: Rudolf Carl Virchow was, remarkably, also one of the most courageous and inspiring proponents of social medicine and was a leading scientist and member of the German Reichstag from 1880 to 1893.