Importance of Domestic Experience in Combating Epidemics When Solving Modern Global Problems
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsr.k.201001.026How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- pandemics, epidemics, biological and epidemiological threats, Lower Volga region
- Abstract
The current topic of epidemics makes the regional experience of combating them in environmentally unfavorable, “difficult” areas relevant. The geographical location of the Lower Volga region as the “Caspian Gate” through which various epidemic diseases penetrated into Russia from Asia has led to the development of valuable “local” experience in combating them. Much that was done in Russia to combat pandemics was tested in the Lower Volga region and then spread to other regions. During the Soviet period, anti-epidemic work became a priority in the country. For its implementation, not only the personnel of sanitary doctors were trained and mass hygienic propaganda was launched among the population, but also a lot of scientific work was done. In the 1920s, the territory of the Lower Volga region was mainly cleared of cholera and plague. In the 1930s, advanced methods of treatment and prevention of these diseases were effectively applied in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The system for combating epidemic diseases established in the USSR made it possible to successfully counteract and often prevent them during the Great Patriotic War, as well as during the postwar famine period.
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TY - CONF AU - Y.G. Eshchenko AU - S.V. Vinogradov AU - E.V. Savelyeva AU - O.V. Liholet PY - 2020 DA - 2020/10/03 TI - Importance of Domestic Experience in Combating Epidemics When Solving Modern Global Problems BT - Proceedings of the International Conference “Health and wellbeing in modern society” (ICHW 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 125 EP - 128 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201001.026 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201001.026 ID - Eshchenko2020 ER -