Hahn S
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden.
Arch Hist Filoz Med. 1996;59(1):107-13.
Ist International Hygenic Exhibition took place in Dresden in 1911 and it was dedicated to communicable diseases. In period of three months when it was opened it was seen by 5 million people. Next, the second - in 1930, was including also the problems connected with neoplastic and psychic diseases, and also with diseases of circulatory system. Sections dedicated to different problems, have had a similar didactic plan. They have been presenting a disease prevalence in the world; how to recognize it and what the course of it is; how it comes to infection and how it is transmitted; what present medicine can do about its treatment; what everybody should do to prevent becoming ill. Exhibitions were one of the elements of communicable diseases prevention, and of health education propagation; they played a significant part in this field.
1911年，第一届国际卫生展览会在德累斯顿举行，展会主题为传染病。展会开放的三个月内，有500万人参观。接下来，1930年举办的第二届展会不仅涵盖了与肿瘤、精神疾病以及循环系统疾病相关的问题。各个针对不同问题的展区都有类似的教学计划。它们展示了某种疾病在全球的流行情况；如何识别该疾病以及其发展过程是怎样的；疾病是如何感染和传播的；现代医学针对该疾病的治疗方法有哪些；每个人应该如何预防患病。展会是预防传染病和传播健康教育的方式之一；它们在这一领域发挥了重要作用。
