The Report of WHO consultant Fraser Brockington (1967) in the context of Francoist health reformism

Abstract

We discuss here the report written by Fraser Brockington, a WHO consultant in public health administration, after his visit to Spain in the framework of the SPA30 collaborative project to create a Demonstration Health Zone. We review some of its most critical parts, in the context of the beginnings of a pathway to reform in the Spanish health administration linked to the Economic and Social Development Plans, and we relate them to the theoretical world of the author that emerges from some of his most important published works. A striking finding is the parallelism between the problems found by Brockington in 1967 and those described by Charles Bailey in his 1926 report to the Rockefeller Foundation.