The departmental medicine in the Soviet Russia and the USSR. Report I. The failed “takeover” of the railroad medicine
The article examines status of transport medical and sanitary service after its incorporation into the People's Commissariat of Health in 1918, in the course of elimination of multi-departmentalism and centralization of health care management. The analysis of factors determining internal instability of this temporary alliance, as well as circumstances encouraged legislative return to railway medicine status of departmental service of the People's Commissariat of Railways in 1931 is presented.
Authors
- Е. В. Шерстнева (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8612-4834)
- V. G. Isakova
Institutions
- National Research Institute of Public Health named after N.A. Semashko (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Problems of Social Hygiene Public Health and History of Medicine
- Published
- 2026-10-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.32687/0869-866x-2026-34-5-1371-1376
- Primary Topic
- Soviet and Russian History
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00