War, Medical Advance and the Improvement of Health in Greece, 1944-53

This article is a case study of the stimulus given by war & foreign intervention to the improvement of health in an under-developed country. British & American agencies -- cooperating with the Greek government & with foreign & Greek NGOs -- worked intensively to improve health in Greece during the decade after liberation from enemy occupation in 1944. They achieved impressive results, despite obstacles created by previous enemy destruction & ensuing civil war. They utilized diverse medical techniques, many of which had been recently discovered, developed or disseminated, partly in response to World War II. British & American policies were responses to the World War & civil war, for motives partly humanitarian, but more political. 2 Tables, 72 References. Adapted from the source document.