This article presents the situation of public health in the 19th century Greece, with an emphasis on the financing of lazarettos. Due to "ignorance" and lack of therapeutic means and hospitals, isolation was the predominant practice for dealing with illness, both on the level of local society...

NGOs/ CBOs have emerged as an integral pillar of both global and national governance, and are recognized as such by the official institutions founded after World War II. This is evident from the important gaps they are called upon to fill, their formal partnerships with international...