REALITA V OBLASTI ZDRAVOTNEJ STAROSTLIVOSTI O DETI NA SLOVENSKU V MEDZIVOJNOVOM OBDOBÍ

• Authors: Anna Falisová , Eva Morovicsová

Title variants

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Reality of healthcare provision for children in interwar Slovakia

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Children require special attention in the field of medico-social. After the World War I infant mortality reached a high value and solution to this problem had gained more and more to its timeliness. In the postwar period the International Red Cross in cooperation with the Czechoslovak government has provided important support for children. American Red Cross began the preventive examinations of children and health education work. Gradually based counselling, which provided care for mothers and children, records of children sick with tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. These consultations formed the basis of socio-medical care for children.

Keywords

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SLOVAKIA; CHILDREN; INFANT MORTALITY; HEALTH CARE; INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS; INTERWAR

• Publisher: Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovak Republic
• Journal: Studia Historica Nitriensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 253 – 273

Contributors

author

Anna Falisová

• Historický ústav Slovenskej akadémie vied v Bratislave, Klemensova 2522/19, 811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

author

Eva Morovicsová