title: [Compromising conscientiously with reality but not with conscience. Reflections on the occasion of 75th anniversary of A. Stampar School of Public Health].
abstract: Changes in the activities and working conditions of the A. Stampar School of Public Health are reviewed following their anniversaries in the 25-year intervals. The differences have been described in understanding of major fields of work between: (1) social medicine (people's health) and public health; (2) health education following philosophy of Enlightenment and learning in the information era; (3) formal administrative organisation stressing implementation of given laws and entrepreneurial management in a society in transition; and (4) transfer of technology through international collaboration and under pressure of market oriented globalisation. Two basic points of view are identified: a social concern as opposite to technology-oriented productivity. It is concluded that a compromise of intentions and reality was always present looking for a balance between the described points of view. In relation to the present and future activities, the necessary compromise has to be conscientious, following the idea of preventive and social orientation applied to actual living problems of people and health care, namely people's health.
authors.affiliation: Skola narodnog zdravlja Andrija Stampar Medicinskog fakulteta Sveucilista u Zagrebu.
authors.forename: Zelimir
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jaksić
mesh_terms: D017523:Croatia; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education / Q000266:history*; D012581:Schools, Public Health / Q000266:history*; D012936:Social Medicine / Q000266:history