The public health service in the Czech and Slovak Republics celebrates its 60th anniversary

摘要

Since the Age of Enlightenment, efforts to prevent disease in Europe have traditionally upheld an acceptably good standard. An implicit factor was the charitable attitude of many physicians and health workers as well as the drive to create the organizational and educational background necessary for the principles of primary prevention to be introduced into actual practice. The Institute of Hygiene of the Czech Faculty of Medicine, now known as the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, 1st Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague, was founded in 1897. An analogical institute at the German Faculty of Medicine in Prague was founded at an earlier date, in 1884.