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| Article name | Healthcare of Different Categories of Children: Experience of Protection and Support in Dagestan. The 1920s and 1930s |
| Authors | Amirkhanova Madina M. , Candidate of Historical Sciences, madinat63@mail.ru,Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnology, Dagestan Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 75 Yaragskogo st., 367014 |
| Bibliographic description | Amirkhanova MM. Healthcare of Different Categories of Children: Experience of Protection and Support in Dagestan. The 1920s and 1930s. Humanitarian Vector. 2026;21(2):119-128. (In Russian). https://www.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2026-21-2-119-128 |
| Section | Social Interaction in Historical Development |
| UDK | 94(470.67) |
| DOI | https://www.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2026-21-2-119-128 |
| Article type | Original article |
| Annotation | In the shadow of the impending demographic crisis, the health protection of the younger generation is being raised to the rank of the cornerstone of Russia’s state strategy. The purpose of this study is to trace the evolution of social policy in the field of childhood in Dagestan, revealing its key vectors and long-term trends. For the first time in the history of state building, concern for the health of the child has acquired the status of an unconditional priority: the active construction of a network of children’s consultations, preschool institutions and dairy kitchens has begun throughout the country. In the process of selecting and classifying specific facts, the author strove for strict objectivity, strictly following the principle of historicism and applying problem-chronological and comparative-historical methods of analysis. The focus is on the fate of the most vulnerable segments of society: street children and children with disabilities. The ideology of medical care in this category required a subtle, differentiated approach that took into account age and state of health, but the chronic shortage of qualified personnel for a long time acted as an insurmountable brake on the implementation of these noble ideas. The result was insufficient availability of specialized care for children with health deviations. A special place in the policy of the republican authorities was taken by the organization of summer vacations: children were sent to sanatorium camps both in Dagestan and in the cities of the North Caucasus. In general, the period under consideration is characterized as the era of the “history of regulations and instructions” descended from the center and binding on the ground. However, good intentions were often broken on the reefs of scarce funding, which significantly offset the real effect of reforms. Summing up, we can state: despite some achievements, the health care system of Dagestan was not able to fully provide young residents of the republic with qualified assistance, especially in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system. The infrastructure ‒ from medical facilities to a network of dairy kitchens and the organization of dietary meals ‒ has not yet been finalized. Nevertheless, the set of measures taken laid a solid foundation for solving a problem that is extremely acute for the region ‒ reducing the infant mortality rate. |
| Key words | children, healthcare, Dagestan, children’s institutions, street children, specialized medical care |
| Copyright holder | Amirkhanova M.M. Все статьи журнала «Вестник ЗабГУ» публикуются на условиях лицензии Creative Commons «Attribution» («Атрибуция») 4.0 Всемирная.
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