Hygiene Imperatives: Child Welfare, School Hygiene and Puericulture 17 in Greece (1911-1936) Cover Image

Хигијенски императиви: друштвена брига о деци, школска хигијена и пуерикултура у Грчкој
Hygiene Imperatives: Child Welfare, School Hygiene and Puericulture 17 in Greece (1911-1936)

Author(s): Despina Karakatsani
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore
Published by: Udruženje za društvenu istoriju
Keywords: Greece; health care system; ocial policy; children welfare; eugenics; puericulture; public health

Summary/Abstract: For more than 70 years after the founding of the Greek state (1830) the country's health care system was primarily based on charity; on Military medical Services; and, rarely, on municipal hospitals such as those at Ermoupolis and Athens. Typhus, diphtheria and smallpox epidemics frequently swept the country and morbidity rates for malaria and tuberculosis remained high until 1930.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 17-32
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English