Poverty as a Historical Risk Factor for Disease Development in Slovenian Classic Literature

<p>Our national history was not in favor of a leasure lifestyle. We spent six hundred years as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and then were cast aside as consequence of the centralistic politics in former Yugoslavia. It is not surprising, knowing these facts, that a crimson trail of pover...

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Main Author: Grega Kragelj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Slovenian Medical Association 2014-11-01
Series:Zdravniški Vestnik
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Online Access:http://vestnik.szd.si/index.php/ZdravVest/article/view/979
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Summary:<p>Our national history was not in favor of a leasure lifestyle. We spent six hundred years as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and then were cast aside as consequence of the centralistic politics in former Yugoslavia. It is not surprising, knowing these facts, that a crimson trail of poverty, death and despair could be followed throughout our classic literature. In this paper, basing on Slovenian classic literature, we try to describe poverty as a historical risk factor but staying true to historical data.</p>
ISSN:1318-0347
1581-0224