Review article
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.18.1.8
MILITARY HEALTH RESORTS IN KVARNER IN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY AND CARE FOR IMPROVING OFFICER HEALTH
Jasenka Kranjčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-5594-9868
; Institut za turizam, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Amir Muzur
orcid.org/0000-0002-9770-6733
; Katedra za društvene i humanističke znanosti u medicini, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Medicinski fakultet / Katedra za javno zdravstvo, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Fakultet zdravstvenih studija, Rijeka, Hrvatska.
Abstract
The health of officers (as well as the entire army) is exposed to additional risks due to the
performance of various life-threatening tasks for the needs of the state. Therefore, it is not
unusual for the state to take care of the health of its officers (as well as the army) through a
system of Vojvodina medical care or specialised society through the construction of military
or officer health resorts [Militärkurhaus / Offizierskurhaus] with the provision of medical/
health services. The subject of this paper is the relationship between architecture and the
provision of military-medical services of officer/military health resorts built by the Society of
the White Cross [Gesellschaft vom Weißen Kreuze] in Kvarner at the end of the 19th and
the beginning of the 20th century. The research is based on data collected from Austrian architectural, medical and tourist magazines and yearbooks of Austrian Society of the White
Cross. The results of the research contribute to a better understanding of the improvement of
the health of officers, the development of the architecture of health buildings [Kurhaus] and
the entire history of medicine and health tourism in the Croatian Adriatic.
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240886
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Publication date:
1.7.2020.
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