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Care for Health Cannot Be Limited to One Country or One Town Only, It Must Extend to Entire World: Role of Andrija Štampar in Building the World Health Organization

Of many Andrija Štampar’ s achievements, those in the field of international public health command the most respect ; and among his undertakings in this area, his efforts and role in the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO) stand out. Planning for the WHO began in early 1946 and in the two years that followed Štampar took part in almost all significant discussions and decisions. He represented Yugoslavia in the Social and Economic Council of the United Nations (UN) and in the Technical Preparatory Committee where he participated in drafting of the Constitution (1946). He led the Interim Committee (1946– 1948), and finally presided over, the first World Health Assembly in the summer of 1948. The foundation of the WHO was preceded by long discussions and negotiations. The WHO meetings were also testing grounds for the competition between the two emerging political blocs, the West and the East. Štampar used his personality, diplomacy, humanism, understanding, respect for other people’ s needs, communication skills and persuasive arguments, to propose and to realize actions to the benefit of those in need. The idea of social medicine in which he believed lost popularity in the decades after his death. Yet the enactment of the resolution ‘ Health of all’ in 1977 may be seen as a return to the ideas that Štampar saw crucial to the development of health in the second half of the twentieth century

Andrija Štampar (1888-1958); WHO— history; international health organizations; public health

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