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Morbiditatea în colectivităţile rurale româneşti. Cauzalitate şi consecinţe sociale
Morbidity in Romanian Rural Colectivities. Causality and Social Consequences

Author(s): Ioana Petre
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Eikon

Summary/Abstract: This study synthesizes the main features of the health of the population in the villages of today.s Romania. Almost all the conclusions of the present study lean towards outlining an alarming weakening of the vital capacity for the rural human capital. The causes of the poor health state in Romanian villages lead towards at least three explicative areas: poverty, poor sanitary and general education for the rural population and the aging of Romanian villages, all these increased in the recent years. The aging trend originates in a double migration phenomenon: on the one hand the fact that young people still leaving the village and on the other hand the fact that adult and old people, who left the villages for the cities decades ago, return for reason of survival. Concerning the main causes of present morbidity in rural Romanian area, that may be defined such as .we are not equals neither in health and dead..

  • Issue Year: 5/2007
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 95-105
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian