抗战时期陕甘宁边区的民众卫生问题

Public Health Problems in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region During the Anti-Japanese War

抗日战争时期,民众卫生在陕甘宁边区占有举足轻重的地位。由于现实、历史、自然、经济、政府、民众自身等多重因素,边区民众卫生存在诸多问题,显现出复杂、滞后、长期、顽固的特点,造成了很多不利影响,导致了许多严重的问题,如传染病的流行、婴儿的高夭折率、妇女的高死亡率、牲畜的高死亡率、疾病普遍存在等。卫生问题严重威胁边区人民的生命、财产安全和身体健康,成为边区社会经济发展和人民生活水平提高的制约因素。

Public health played an important role in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region during the Anti-Japanese War. Due to multiple factors such as reality, history, nature, economy, government and people themselves, there were many public health problems with characteristics of being complex, lagging behind, long-term and stubborn, causing many adverse effects and serious problems, such as infectious disease prevalence, high infant mortality rate, high women mortality rate, high livestock mortality rate, and disease prevalence. Health problems seriously threatened the life, property safety and physical health of people there, and became the restricting factors for the social economic development and the improvement of people's living standards.