Quantitative and qualitative transformations in the public healthcare system and the medical infrastructure in Bessarabia (1812-1917)
Quantitative and qualitative transformations in the public healthcare system and the medical infrastructure in Bessarabia (1812-1917)

Summary/Abstract: The present study offers a survey of the evolution of the medical infrastructure in Bessarabia during the nineteenth – early twentieth century based on published and unpublished documents. It summarizes the quantitative and qualitative transformations that took place in the public health care system in Bessarabia during the above-mentioned period. At the same time, it reflects the main stages and achievements of the public healthcare system in tsarist Bessarabia over the course of its evolution, in order to complement the discussion of the strategies of organization and reform of the public healthcare system, already tested in Bessarabia, with a consistent analysis of the results obtained.The study also examines and evaluates the structural changes of the aforementioned healthcare system, produced in relation to different types of health care, as well as its performances and failures. The study analyzes the concepts of health care system reforms in Bessarabia through the prism of European modernization and evaluates the Bessarabian medical practice and experience in both an international historical context and a highly complicated domestic one, set in an ethnically diverse region. Based on relevant documentary sources, the study elaborates novel analytical research and provides a concise overview of the health care system in Bessarabia in the context of European modernization.

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