Urban public space and health culture in Belgrade Cover Image

Urbani javni prostor i zdravstvena kultura u Beogradu
Urban public space and health culture in Belgrade

Author(s): Nikola Samardžić
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Health and medicine and law, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Naučno društvo za istoriju zdravstvene kulture
Keywords: public health; environment; Belgrade; public space; urbicide

Summary/Abstract: Following the general urbicide policy from the last decade of the 20th century, urban and social degradation of Belgrade is revealing new tendencies and features during the actual 2000s: institutional incompetence and corruption, collapse of health care system and public health generally, media criminalization of doctors,professors of medicine and medical staff , obliteration of cultural institutions, pressures on small and medium business initiatives as strongholds of labor and capitalist ethics,public promotion of unhealthy lifestyle, public and institutional tolerance (even support) of extremism directed against minority groups.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 8-15
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English, Serbian