title: [The outstanding figure of domestic military and civil public health services].
abstract: The article presents data on the outstanding Soviet theorist and the organizer of Health Care, full member of Academy of Medical Science of the U.S.S.R., the Hero of Socialist Work, the colonel general of a health service E.I. Smirnov who has developed a lot on the theory and practice of civil and military public health services. Its contribution to communication between organizational forms of medical maintenance of armies and principles of military art, and also dependence of quality of medical aid to the population on the organizational structure of a treatment-and-prophylactic network were considered. E.I. Smirnova's personal role in improvement of organizational forms of medical maintenance of armies, theory and practice development of intermediate treatments with evacuation to destination, in the organization of antiepidemic maintenance of armies and development number of actual questions of modern military medicine are shown in the article.
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Pavlovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history; D014586:USSR