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1603 – 2003: 400 years of public health in Norway. Magne Nylenna. . In 1603 Villads Nielsen (Vilhadius Adamius) [ca. 1564 – 1616] was appointed ordinario medico in Bergen by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway. 400 years celebrations. From plague to parking problems.
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1603 – 2003:400 years of public health in Norway Magne Nylenna
In 1603 Villads Nielsen (Vilhadius Adamius) [ca. 1564 – 1616] was appointed ordinario medico in Bergen by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway
Norway and public health services 2003 1603 ~ 4,5 mill. inhabitants ~ 400 000 inhabitants Poverty Prosperity Extensive health services No health services Illness and death was a natural part of everyday life Good health in old age is regarded as a ”human right”
17th century • The early modern state • The plague • Isolation • Monastery hospitals • ”Treatment”: Enema and blood-letting
18th century • The Enlightenment • Awareness of people as individuals • Leprosy hospitals • Smallpox epidemics • Inoculation and later vaccination
19th century • Nation building • Aiming at a healthy population • Hospitals turned into institutions for treatment • Cholera • Bacteriological breakthrough
20th century • The welfare state • Tuberculosis, Spanish flu, Poliomyelitis • New infections: HIV/AIDS, SARS • Medical progress • Health care services as a growth industry
Medical literature 1643 First printing machine in Norway 1665 First scientific journals (Paris/London) 1778 Sundhetstidende (Copenhagen) 1826 Eyr (Christiania) 1840 Norsk Magazin for Lægevidenskaben 1881 Tidsskrift for praktisk Medicin …… increasing number of periodicals
About medical journals: ”….their importance in medical science, in which the literature is so voluminous that a doctor devoting his whole time to it, would not possibly be able to read…even a tenth of it” Report in Eyr, 1827 when the library of the University of Christiania subscribed to 18 medical journals
What about libraries? Leyden, 1610 NLM, Bethesda, 2003
Libraries in Norway • 1662 Dr. Ambrosius Rhodius (1605-1696) had 437 books • 1781 Gerhard Schøning (1722-1780) donated 12 000 books to The Royal Society of Sciences in Trondheim • 1785 Deichman library in Christiania • 1811 University library in Christiania • 1968 Library of the Medical Faculty, University of Oslo
400 years of development • research • knowledge • understanding • information
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