Liječnički vjesnik, Vol. 142 No. 3-4, 2020.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.26800/LV-142-3-4-19
Victories and defeats: battles with pandemics caused by viruses during the last one hundred years
Martin Kuhar
; Odsjek za povijest medicinskih znanosti Zavoda za povijest i filozofiju znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb
Stella Fatović-Ferenčić
; Odsjek za povijest medicinskih znanosti Zavoda za povijest i filozofiju znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb
Abstract
The paper presents an overview of virus pandemics throughout the 20th and the 21st century and their main characteristics. Selected examples of applied health protection measures are described, as well as cultural, political, economic, and public health responses to pandemics. A rich heritage of preventive health protection specific for our territory, and its role in selecting protective health models during the coronavirus pandemic
is emphasized.
Keywords
INFLUENZA PANDEMIC, 1918–1919 – epidemiology, history; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN – epidemiology, history; PANDEMICS – history; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME – epidemiology, history; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL – history, trends; QUARANTINE – hystory; ZOONOSES – transmission; GLOBAL HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIYATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21TH CENTURY
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238514
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Publication date:
8.6.2020.
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