American Journal of Public Health
Volume 104, Issue 12 (December 2014)
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/current

Transforming Public Health Delivery Systems With Open Science Principles
Glen P. Mays, PhD, MPH, and F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD
Glen Mays is with the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research, Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The University of Kentucky, Lexington. F. Douglas Scutchfield is with the Colleges of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Kentucky.
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A Public Health Achievement Under Adversity: The Eradication of Poliomyelitis From Peru, 1991
Deepak Sobti, MD, Marcos Cueto, PhD, and Yuan He, BS
Abstract
The fight to achieve global eradication of poliomyelitis continues. Although native transmission of poliovirus was halted in the Western Hemisphere by the early 1990s, and only a few cases have been imported in the past few years, much of Latin America’s story remains to be told. Peru conducted a successful flexible, or flattened, vertical campaign in 1991. The initial disease-oriented programs began to collaborate with community-oriented primary health care systems, thus strengthening public–private partnerships and enabling the common goal of poliomyelitis eradication to prevail despite rampant terrorism, economic instability, and political turmoil. Committed leaders in Peru’s Ministry of Health, the Pan American Health Organization, and Rotary International, as well as dedicated health workers who acted with missionary zeal, facilitated acquisition of adequate technologies, coordinated work at the local level, and increased community engagement, despite sometimes being unable to institutionalize public health improvements.