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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on October 25, 2009
The European Journal of Public Health 2009 19(6):567; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckp151
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorial

Prevention and social constructivism

Vasiliy V. Vlassov

Society for Evidence Based Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence: Vasiliy V. Vlassov, Society for Evidence Based Medicine, Moscow P.O. Box 13, Moscow 109451, Russia, e-mail: vlassov@cochrane.ru

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Humans of the communism future ought to be healthy, happy and by a high birth rate assure expanding reproduction. So, the idea of prevention was very natural to communist physicians. In 1923, the Moscow health care department led by Vladimir Obukh (physician to Vladimir Lenin's family), initiated health check-ups for workers. Physicians promised communist leadership that after the check-ups, the need for drugs would expire. In the next decade, millions of workers went through check-ups and were registered for ‘dispanserization’ in big cities.1 The mass health . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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