title: [Current concept of the role of the hygienic-epidemiologic service under special conditions and of the protection of human environment].
abstract: The contemporary role and tasks of hygienic-epidemiological service are the outcome of the significant social, demographic, economic and health changes as a result of general social development. Natural phenomena such as elemental catastrophies, pollution of human environment, permanent threat of breaking out war at different places, all these set special tasks and determine the role of hygienic-epidemiological service. The contemporary role of the hygienic-epidemiological service is to provide scientific approach to the efficient solving of topical hygienic-epidemiological problems originated in newly-made ecological conditions, disturbed balance in nature, and also in changes of social structure of population. The tasks of the hygienic-epidemiological service are classified according to the role and purpose of each institution and according to the territory where the institution is situated, all these depending on situation (regular or special). In regular situation they have the tasks which are concerned with protection of the living environment and they include prevention of the mass deseases, contagious and other. In special situation they are concerned with catastrophies such as floods, earthquakes, breaking out of grow epidemics, occurence of quarantine diseases and other, and their aim is to prevent or at least to lessen the consequences caused by these catastrophies.
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D004190:Disasters; D004463:Ecology; D004782:Environmental Health; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D015022:Yugoslavia
vernacular_title: Savremena shvatanja uloge higijensko-epidemioloske sluzbe u vanrednim prilikama i zastiti zivotne sredine