Az egészségnevelés intézményesülésének történe
Institutionalization – A History of Health Education

Summary/Abstract: This study shows the key elements of efforts to investigate ways of disease prevention. The 18th century began with a health knowledge transfer, reaching out to the wider population. The entire system had been finished by the 20th century, becoming set within the development of a modernizing society. The research’s focus lies in the school curriculum’s health and medical work content, i.e. as a school subject studied in the context of the national health education system, within a process of institutionalization. Changes in the law regarding the system as it is organized in the framework of national public health are investigated. Our main result is that one can see that the domestic health education system has at the same time showed a peculiar and unique image when set against international trends. The original goal of medical work at school and of the health education curriculum was able to be reached only in part, yet as a determining factor it did have some influence on the Hungarian population’s health status and on concepts of health.

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