THE IDEA OF MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF OUR NATION IS PROFESSOR IRYNA DATSENKO’S LIFE MOTTO

Abstract

І. I. Datsenko (1925 -2006) is a full-fledged member of Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society, a famous representative of Lviv scientific hygienic school and environmentalist, a talented teacher, active figure in the public life and organizational activities in Ukraine. For many years – from curious student, graduate doctor and postgraduate student to the Head of the Department of General Hygiene and Ecology of Lviv Danylo Halytsky National University, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Higher School of Ukraine, merited member of the Ukrainian Medical Society, member of New York Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, author of relevant, interesting scientific works, monographs, textbooks, and manuals for students – Iryna Datesenko selflessly and persistently worked her way to preserving and the health of the Ukrainian nation and train highly professional medical specialists. At the department, she initiated the creation of the first maps of pollution in various city districts, noise maps, maps of population morbidity. She is the author of about 400 scientific works dedicated to theoretical and practical issues of general hygiene. On March 28, 2019, Lviv Scientific and Research Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology at Lviv Danylo Halytsky National Medical University celebrated the solemn opening of a memorial room of Professor Iryna Datsenko. The newly created exposition lets us review laboratory devices, measuring equipment, mockups used to teach the students of that time, historical documents related to the scientific creative heritage of Professor Datsenko, her works. The collection of photos are a real decoration of this exhibition. All of this combined together helps us visualize the milestones of the development of preventive medicine in Lviv Region and Prykarpattia.

Keywords

• preventive medicine, hygiene, history of medicine, taras shevchenko scientific society, lviv national medical university, iryna datsenko