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

Hrčak ID:

238514

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/238514

Publication date:

8.6.2020.

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