Health in Grenada: a social and historical account

ABSTRACT

Traces the history of health services and facilities from the seventeenth century to the present. States that the conquest of epidemic and endemic infectious diseases that ravaged the country, held down population growth and hampered agricultural development and trade has been a relatively recent accomplishment. Details of the fight by the medical authorities in the eighteenth century against such diseases as dysentery, malaria, and yellow fever; and yaws, tuberculosis and cholera in the nineteenth and early twentieth century are given. Other aspects of public health are also examined. Presents information on the development of the district medical services; development of a network of visiting stations and improved sanitation services. Concludes with details of the government's committment to health for all by the year 2000 and the programs and strategies that will be established to accomplish this