Naslov
Spanish Flu and Mental Disorders in the Margraviate of Istria at the End of WWI

Autori
Plavšić, Marlena

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
European Social Science History Conference 2018 / ESSHC ; IISH - Belfast : International Institute of Social History, 2018, 1-1

Skup
European Social Science History Conference 2018

Mjesto i datum
Belfast, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 04.04.2018. - 07.04.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Spanish flu ; Mental Disorders ; Margraviate of Istria ; World War I

Sažetak
Spanish influenza heavily attacked the Austrian Littoral, one of the 18 crown lands in the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy at the end of the World war I. Besides dominant physical manifestations of the disease, it is specualted that mental disturbances, primarily depression, could have accompanied the influenza, either simoultaneously, or consequently. The paper focuses on the situation in the largest towns of the Margraviate of Istria, one of the districts in the Austrian Littoral. The objective is to explore whether same patients hospitalised and diagnosed with Spanish flu were also hospitalised and diagnosed with some mental disturbance. Hospital registers are analysed for the period 1918 - 1920. The results are interpreted from the contemporaty perspective that takes into consideration the analysis of risk and protective factors and biopsychosocial approach to health and illness. In this case the contemporary frame in explaining of this historic phenomenon is confronted with the historical context, given the fact that there are limitiations in reliable data and standardised diagnostic criteria.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita, Psihologija, Povijest

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