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Eforturi de modernizare a sistemului sanitar al județului Sălaj după Primul Război Mondial
Efforts to Modernize the Sanitary System of Sălaj County after the First World War

Author(s): Mihaela Ghinea-Sabou
Subject(s): Social history, Health and medicine and law, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: sanitary; physicians; epidemic; midwives; hospitals; Sălaj county;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to highlight the process of modernization of the medical field in Sălaj County after World War I. This study is based on original documentary sources, belonging to the following arhival funds: Sanitary Service of Sălaj County; The Prefecture of Sălaj County etc. and unauthentic sources dealing with similar subjects. The end of World War 1 brings out the need of reinvention in the Sanitary System, as well as projecting new evolutional landmarks dictated by the political, territorial, social and economic changes after 1918.All in all, the implementing of the corresponding sanitary legislation, mixed with the effort of the authorities preoccupied with the finding of capital and sustainable ways of development for the medical sector, accentuate its chances of evolution and project its own way through modernization.

  • Issue Year: LXI/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 183-197
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian