A Historical Survey of Military Health Services: The Crimean War and Florence Nigtingale
Autor: | Gültekin Öztürk, Unal Demirtas, Aslan Özden |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Zdroj: | TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2014) |
Popis: | During the Crimean War freezing cold and contagious diseases was more important than the Russian soldiers for the allied armies. Typhus, scorbut, cholera and malaria prepare the dead of a large number of soldiers. According to the resources, the contagious diseases led to death more than ten times of the military actions. That and #8217;s why, The European armies understood the importance of the treatment diseases in the war and the Crimean War became the beginning point in military health concept development. Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 volunteers provide clean bedding, improve ventilation and sewage disposal, and reorganize everyday sanitary procedures at British barracks in Istanbul. She was an early theorist of sanitation and one of the founders of the modern nursing profession. Nightingale worked to improve sanitation, nutrition, and activity of patients at hospitals. Death rates were reduced dramatically with the introduction of such measures. [TAF Prev Med Bull 2014; 13(1.000): 1-6] |
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