Title Visuomenės sveikatos mokslo raida Stepono Batoro universiteto Medicinos fakultete ir visuomenės sveikatos būklė Vilniaus krašte 1919-1939 metais /
Translation of Title Development of public health science at the Stephen Bathory University and public health conditions in the Vilnius region during 1919-1939.
Authors Žalnora, Aistis
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Pages 208
Keywords [eng] Public health ; Vilnius Province in the years of 1919–1939 ; Stephen Bathory University ; Medical Faculty
Abstract [eng] Growing public health threats of social origin in Lithuania require new social public health strategies. Such strategies should be based on past experience. The Western concept of public health as a science and practical activity is a relatively new phenomenon in Lithuania. In the post World War II years, public health ideas which had been created in interwar Vilnius were rejected. Hygiene education theory was limited to Soviet Union models. Disease etiology was interpreted by excluding analysis of the social factors. The transformation of public health theory and practices began in Lithuania only in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This study provides data about the public health achievements in interwar Vilnius. Public health teaching at the Vilnius Stephen Bathory University was greatly influenced by the concept of the American public health professor C. E. A. Winslow (1920). An important distinguishing feature of the interwar period was the search for the social origins of disease. Socio-cultural factors became a separate object of investigation. The aim was to find causal relationships between the so-called social diseases and the factors that influenced them. Once found, specific strategies were devised to deal with the social pathological causes and to improve the health care system. Hygienists at the Stephen Bathory University identified many factors that caused social diseases. They also offered broad scale strategies to local public health and administration authorities. Moreover, they actively cooperated with the local government in order to solve public health problems.
Dissertation Institution Vilniaus universitetas.
Type Doctoral thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2015