Tuberculosis (1860 - 1960)

Autori

• Zvonka Zupanič Slavec

Parametri

• 167 pagine
• 6 ore di lettura

• Salute & Medicina

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This book narrates the efforts of Slovenian and international communities, public healthcare, and policy to combat tuberculosis, a significant socioeconomic disease in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It chronicles the journey toward effective anti-tuberculosis treatments discovered in the 1950s, which diminished the disease's prevalence in developed nations. The narrative centers on the Slovenian tuberculosis sanatorium at Golnik, which laid the groundwork for a standardized approach to treating and containing tuberculosis among the twenty million people in Yugoslavia at that time. The Slovenian experience is compared with similar efforts in Austria, Italy, and Croatia, highlighting the interplay of medical treatment with social, economic, and political factors that influence the spread of such diseases. The struggle against tuberculosis is set against the backdrop of two political systems: post-World War I, when Austro-Hungarian healthcare influenced Slovenia, and the introduction of socialized medicine in the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, led by Andrija Štampar. His initiatives promoted community responsibility for health and disease prevention through measures like quarantines and education, which significantly lowered tuberculosis rates even before antibiotics were available. After 1945, a publicly funded healthcare system in Yugoslavia bolstered mass campaigns against tuberculosis, leading to a dramatic re

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2011

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