African Highway: The Battle for Health in Central Africa
African Highway: The Battle for Health in Central Africa
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非洲公路：中部非洲的健康之战
DOI：
10.1136/bmj.a2940
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
D. J. Buchanan
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作者：
D. J. Buchanan
从1970年到1986年的大部分时间里，我在赞比亚担任外科医生和卫生服务经理，特别是从1975年开始为采矿业工作。与铜带矿区的大多数居民一样，我宁愿理所当然地认为我们不需要采取疟疾预防措施。仔细想想，这不是我们所能预料到的。我对铜带地区疟疾控制历史的兴趣最初是在1936年看到伦敦比蒂矿业公司董事们的信件后产生的，他们敦促罗安羚羊矿区的首席医疗官投入更多精力……
For most of the period from 1970 to 1986 I worked as a surgeon and health service manager in Zambia and in particular for the mining industry from 1975. In common with most of the residents of the Copperbelt mining district I rather took for granted the fact that we had no need to take malaria prophylaxis. On reflection this was not something we could have expected. My interest in the history of malaria control on the Copperbelt was first raised by sight of correspondence in 1936 from the directors of the Beatty’s mining company in London urging the chief medical officer at the Roan Antelope mine to put more effort into …