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1603 – 2003: 400 years of public health in Norway

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

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  1. 1603 – 2003:400 years of public health in Norway Magne Nylenna 

  2. In 1603 Villads Nielsen (Vilhadius Adamius) [ca. 1564 – 1616] was appointed ordinario medico in Bergen by King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway

  3. 400 years celebrations

  4. From plague to parking problems

  5. 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”

  6. 17th century • The early modern state • The plague • Isolation • Monastery hospitals • ”Treatment”: Enema and blood-letting

  7. 18th century • The Enlightenment • Awareness of people as individuals • Leprosy hospitals • Smallpox epidemics • Inoculation and later vaccination

  8. 19th century • Nation building • Aiming at a healthy population • Hospitals turned into institutions for treatment • Cholera • Bacteriological breakthrough

  9. 20th century • The welfare state • Tuberculosis, Spanish flu, Poliomyelitis • New infections: HIV/AIDS, SARS • Medical progress • Health care services as a growth industry

  10. 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

  11. The growth of information

  12. 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

  13. What about libraries? Leyden, 1610 NLM, Bethesda, 2003

  14. 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

  15. 400 years of development • research • knowledge • understanding • information

  16. Updated, reliable and comprehensive information never goes out of fashion

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