Subtitle:

Polska 1944/45-1989 : studia i materiały 16 (2018)

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Publisher:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 227-243 ; Summary in English ; Projects co-financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; 24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

Citizens’ letters addressed to the state authorities were not a phenomenon specific to Poland of those times as a similar phenomenon was present in other countries of post-war Central Eastern Europe. The thematic scope of the letters addressed by Polish citizens to the state authorities focused usually on situations and phenomena that caused the most bitter everyday frustration and concern. What was most often brought up in these letters were unmet fundamental needs of people – housing problems, supply shortages, lack of work, issues related to the security of possession, etc. The problems of health care, although not prevailing in general (throughout the whole period of People’s Poland), was constantly present in the files of the Bureau of Letters and Complaints. The problems of the state health system (both open and closed healthcare systems) which emerge from the letters reveal that, regardless the perspective of the author (patient, doctor, medical staff), the set of the most burning issues was the same for all. This was especially true for the first twenty years after the war experiencing the biggest organisational difficulties of the Polish healthcare system. An analysis of the problems accompanying the organisation of state healthcare system reveals that a number of phenomena and work pathologies present at that time in the medical care institutions were similar as those in other socialist workplaces.

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Relation:

Polska 1944/45-1989 : studia i materiały

Volume:

16

Start page:

227

End page:

243

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:71963 ; 2450-8357 ; 2450-8365 ; 10.12775/Polska.2018.07

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. B.155/16 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. B.156/16 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Access:

Open