Medical association Rijeka-Susak was established on 26 September 1947. Next year, in 1948., this association became Branch Rijeka of Croatian medical association. Today, Branch Rijeka has 1227 ...members.
The incidence and distribution of reported varicella cases in the Rijeka District (RD), Croatia (323,130 inhabitants in 1990 and because of the new administrative distribution 305,505 inhabitants in ...1991), from 1977 to 2012 are presented. During this period, varicella is continuously present in the RD and these epidemics appear practically every other year. The highest incidence of 1642 per 100,000 inhabitants was registered in 1987. High incidence was also registered during the interepidemic years, while the lowest 247 per 100,000 inhabitants was registered in 2001. Children between the ages of 5 and 9 years were mostly infected, while 87.7% of the 78,883 registered cases were in those up to 14 years. Varicella manifests most intensively during winter and spring, with a peak in March and April. Males are not significantly more affected (51.1%) than females (48.9%). In the observed period, there was not a single reported case of death connected with the varicella disease.
In years following to the second world war the convention organisator was faced with major technical difficulties due to universal shortage of resources. During the 50's, two conventions of health ...workers with topics related to preventive medicine were held in Opatija. On both occasion Sanitary Bureau of Rijeka (Institute of Hygiene) was the main organisator. Reviewing the correspondance in Institute of Hygiene archive, one can monitor the preparations for the congress. In order to meet the participant's expectation, director of Institute of Hygiene, requested from the local entrepreneur adequate supply of postcard and cigarettes.
Kada jedan zdravstveni radnik u svome stručnom i društvenom radu cijeli svoj radni vijek djeluje na jednom području, svakodnevno rješavajući široku paletu problematike zaštite čovjekove okoline, mora ...ostaviti i među stručnjacima i među stanovništvom toga područja svoj dubok, neizbrisivi trag. Takav je bio prim. dr. Ante Švalba, liječnik specijalist iz higijene, koji se u svome gotovo šezdesetogodišnjem aktivnom radu posvetio unapređenju zdravlja stanovništva na širemu riječkom području. Bio je izraziti terenski radnik i kao neumorni predavač posebno angažiran u podizanju zdravstvene kulture stanovništva svih dobi, posebno školske djece. Desetljećima, gotovo do pred smrt, bio je najaktivnije prisutan u radu Crvenog križa.
Rođen je u Rijeci, a školovao se u Rijeci i u Sušaku. Diplomirao je na Medicinskom fakultetu u Zagrebu 1927. godine. Tri je godine radio u Školi narodnog zdravlja u Zagrebu, a od 1931. do 1942. kao gradski fizik u gradu Sušaku, kada je zajedno s obitelji odveden u Italiju. Nakon kapitulacije Italije dolazi u Bari i pristupa NOV-u gdje u mjestu Grumo organizira bolnicu i Sanitetsku školu NOVJ-a. Povratkom u Rijeku radi na raznim funkcijama u zdravstvu i lokalnoj upravi, a najduže kao gradski i kotarski sanitarni inspektor. Nakon umirovljenja 1965., rukovodi do 1972. HE odjelom Doma zdravlja Opatija.
When a healthcare professional sticks to one area of activity, such as protection of human environment, for his entire career, he must leave an indelible mark on his colleagues and local population. ...Dr Ante Svalba was this kind of a man; he was a physician specialised in hygiene, who persisted in his commitment to improve public health in the wide Rijeka area for nearly sixty active years. He was a true field worker and tireless educator dedicated to improving health culture in all age groups, but especially in schoolchildren. For decades, and nearly to the day he died, he was active in Red Cross work. Ante Svalba was born in Rijeka, and completed primary and secondary school in Rijeka and Susak, respectively. He graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1927. For three years he worked at the School of Public Health in Zagreb, and between 1931 and 1942 he was town physician of Susak, until he was interned in Italy with his family. When Italy capitulated he went to Bari and joined anti-fascist resistance. In a place called Grumo he set up a hospital and a medical corps school of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. Having returned to Rijeka, he performed a number of healthcare public offices, of which sanitation inspection was the longest lasting. When he retired in 1965, he took up a position of the head of Hygiene and Epidemiology Department of the Community Health Centre of Opatija until 1972.
Compulsory vaccination against mumps at 15 months of age in the region of Rijeka, Croatia (340,467 inhabitants in 1990) started in 1976. The incidence and distribution of reported mumps cases during ...the period from 1976 to 1990 are presented. Two epidemics were reported during this period. The first was in 1977 with an incidence of 434.7 per 100,000 inhabitants. The second lasted throughout 1981 (incidence 432.5) and 1982 (incidence 552.1). An eight-year period, 1983-1990, followed with a low reported incidence. The highest incidence was among 5 to 9-year olds during the first post-vaccination period (1976-1982), while it shifted to 15 to 19-year olds during the second post-vaccination period (1983-1990). Mumps remains a spring-time disease with highest incidence in April. Registered cases were more frequent in males (55%) than in females (45%).
In the Province Hospital Susak the Medical Association of the Croatian Coast and Gorski kotar was founded on October 2nd, 1936. At that time on the territory of the former District of Susak there ...were 59 physicians. The inauguration meeting was attended by 41 physicians and 26 of them voted for the autonomous Association rather than for one within the Croatian Medical Association of Zagreb. Vladimir Blaz, M.D. was the first elected president. During the Italian occupation in the 2nd World War Association's activities were interrupted. After five years of inactivity, the Association was restored at its constituting session held on June 8th, 1946, when Zdravko Kucić, M.D. was elected president. The Medical Association Rijeka-Susak was founded on September 24th, 1947 and the first elected president was Fran Bakarcić, M.D. It still kept functioning as an autonomous association. The following year the Association became the subsidiary of the Croatian Medical Association.
U prvim godinama nakon završetka Drugoga svjetskoga rata zbog sveopćih nestašica bilo je velikih tehničkih problema u organizaciji kongresâ. Tijekom 1950. godine u Opatiji su organizirana dva ...kongresa zdravstvenih radnika s tematikom vezanom uz preventivnu medicinu. Organizator na terenu bio je Oblasni higijenski zavod Rijeka (OHZR). Uvidom u dopise u pismohrani OHZR-a može se pratiti tijek priprema. U želji da sudionici budu zadovoljni ravnatelj OHZR-a je, među ostalim, zatražio od lokalnog poduzeća da u svojim prodavaonicama osigura dovoljnu količinu razglednica i cigareta.
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