Local/Global Encounters
Development (2007) 50, 127–133. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100373
Building Health Where Peace is New in Near Post-War El Salvador
Lanny (Clyde Lanford) Smith
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Abstract
Lanny Smith describes how an invitation by community leaders in South-Eastern Morazán, El Salvador, to Médecins du Monde France in 1992 resulted in a successful community-driven partnership for health and social justice. The community work inspired a new discipline called 'Liberation Medicine,' and resulted in the Salvadoran association Campesinos for Human Development and an 'anti-colonization' international group, Doctors for Global Health.
Keywords:
liberation medicine, human rights, participatory investigation, anti-colonization, reconciliation, people's health movement, Morazán
