Sanitary and hygienic enlightenment among children and adults in Western Ukraine (1920 - 1930`s)

Abstract

The article deals with educational activity of Ukrainian associations regarding formation of knowledge on the basics of hygiene, training of healthy lifestyle for children and adults, and prevention of emergence and spread of various diseases, including tuberculosis. In the early twentieth century, under conditions of foreign states domination and political oppression of the Ukrainian people, national public associations of Halychyna (“Narodna Licznytsia“, Ukrainian Hygienic Association, Ukrainian Medical Association, “Vidrodzhennia“ and others) created a public system of health care for population of the region, thus offsetting gaps in the social policy of Austria-Hungary and Poland.Key words: Ukrainian doctors, “Narodna Licznytsia“, Ukrainian Hygienic Association, Ukrainian Medical Association, education.