Sadowska J
Katedry Historii Medycyny i Farmacji Akademii Medycznej w Lodzi.
Przegl Lek. 1998;55(6):354-6.
Modern opinion about people community formulated by philosophers and economists has shown essence of the public health care problem. Together with development of medical knowledge about man and his social role, sense of understanding joint responsibility of the government for health matters of the nation has been changing. Political and economical transformations in the era of early industrialisation tiggered in people need for making their material and health state better. This base was strenghtened by the French Revolution in proclaimed rights to freedom and individual life in the society. Modern adjusted to the epoch inner structures of undergoing modernization European countries, considered issues of the public health care in wider range. Sanitary, hygienic and epidemic problems as well as new health- and life-threatening factors in working population and pathology.