title: [Health care in the upper Silesia in the Prussia sector up 1918].
abstract: In the middle of the XVIII century Prussia took over the entire Silesia, except the region of Cieszyn Silesia (Slask Cieszyński) and Opawa Silesia (Slask Opawski), under its domination. Reforms of health care carried out so far in the Prussia Kingdom were also accomplished in Upper Silesia. In the years 1854, 1864, 1911 and 1912 several bills were passed that made up a legal and systemic basis of fraternity and social insurance. In the second half of the XIX century there were three institutions responsible for the insurance of miners of Upper Silesia (Górnoślaska Spółka Bracka), the fraternity of Lower Silesia (Dolnoślakska Spółka Bracka), and the miner fraternity of Pszczyna (Pszczyńskie Bractwo Górnicze) with their headquarters in Tarnowskie Góry, Wałbrzych and Pszcyna respectively, apart from an out patients treatment accomplished by a score of patients' insurance funds, the in - patients' treatment was provided in fraternal, self-governmental and institutional hospitals. Many problems and solutions discussed in the paper were developed and used in the organisation of the health care system in the new Silesian administrative region (1922) as well as the present reform of the medical service in Poland (insurance, patients' insurance funds, etc.).
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kwiecień
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puzio
mesh_terms: D018595:Colonialism / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000266:history*; D011044:Poland