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Propagandizing the Healthy, Bolshevik Life in the Early USSR.

Authors :
Starks, Tricia A.
Source :
American Journal of Public Health; Nov2017, Vol. 107 Issue 11, p1718-1724, 7p
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

This essay outlines the problems facing Soviet health authorities at the inception of the People's Commissariat of Public Health in 1918 and the innovative methods employed in sanitary enlightenment propaganda in Russia throughout the 1920s. Beset by funding issues and supply problems, the emissaries of health chose the cheapest means of health improvement (propaganda) with the most cost-effective method (prevention), and crowed of great successes even as large portions of the nation still suffered from lack of contact with sanitary authorities. Targeting Soviet citizens at every stage and space of life, the envoys of public health spread the message of prophylaxis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00900036
Volume :
107
Issue :
11
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
American Journal of Public Health
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
125672906
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304049