Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 24 No. (1-2), 1992.
Ostalo
Epidemic and hygienic actions in the community of Slavonski Brod in the Homeland war
Stjepan Čeović
Marica Miletić-Medved
Sažetak
Protective medicine is one of the most important ingredients in medical protection of people in everytime, but in war it has special importance. It has task to foresee possible epidemic contaminations and to do prophilactic actions in time. Depending on long time surveys of contagious diseas in community of Slavonski Brod, all important groups are analized. There were no epidemics during 1991 - the first year of the war and it continued in the first half of 1992; yet there were some dangers of bursting out venter typhus (belly typhus), bacillar disenteria, salmonelosis, some respiratoric diseases and especially transmissive diseases (spotted typhus) and diseases of natural seat (tick meningoencephalytis). And there were some dangers of AIDS and other sexual diseases. In the same time the activity of the Hygienic-epidemiologic service during 1991 and first half of 1992 was shown and it happened it was the main factor of hygienic and epidemiologic activity, but not the sole in the Slavonski Brod community. Sanitary control over reserve water supplies was established, as well as over the people working in public kitchens. Epidemiologic supervision over refugees and outcasts was established, too. Elder people were vaccinated aginst tetanus and influenza. Children of refuges and outcasts were vaccinated according to the special program. Some actions are undertaken in rat-poisoning: regular program and in special cases by call. The rooms for refugees and members of Croatian Anny were disinsected and in some cases disinfection was performed. The main question in hygienic-prophilactic criteria is whether bursting out epidemies of classical infective diseases like those during the second world war is real? For many vicious and epidemic diseases now we have better and more efficient protection, but as this local war is extremely brutal and violent, all is possible. As the war continues there are more prospects that some infectious diseases could happen.
Ključne riječi
infectious (contagious) diseases; epidemiology; prevention; war
Hrčak ID:
195228
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.12.1992.
Posjeta: 957 *