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Chasing Polio in Pakistan: Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Closser, Svea
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In Chasing Polio in Pakistan: Why the World’s Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail, Svea Closser, a Middlebury College assistant professor of anthropology, has written a thoughtful and provocative assessment of the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) based on her own field work in 2006–2007. Closser, married to a Pakistani man and fluent in Urdu, had access to field workers and government officials, and provides greater insight than might be expected from a Western author. As an anthropologist, Closser strove to evaluate the progress and deficits of the program from a political and societal perspective rather than a technical or operational one. The result is a very convincing evaluation of the causes of failures to date, and Closser extrapolates that the lessons learned in fighting polio in Pakistan might apply to problems in other nations and to eradication efforts for diseases such as measles and malaria. Pakistan is one of the four countries (along with Nigeria, India, and Afghanistan) in which polio has remained endemic since the World Health Assembly voted in 1988 to eradicate the disease by the year 2000. Ten years after that target date, Nigeria and India show promise of possibly attaining eradication in the next several years, whereas Pakistan and Afghanistan lag. Although the two nations have some similar problems, Pakistan’s are unique in several respects. Immense [...] Book Review
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DOI	10.5860/choice.48-5161
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.48-5161
Language	English
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Content Type	Text
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