"Preventive Medicine" No. 1. January, 1929

The magazine begins its 8th year of existence with this book. Over the past 7 years, the magazine managed to win a place of honor among our periodicals devoted to all preventive disciplines: the magazine published in Kharkov managed to become popular and widespread throughout the USSR. In the introduction "From the Editor" to the beginning of the 8th year of its existence, the editorial board writes: “In the era of the cultural revolution and the construction of socialism in our country, every journal faces the most responsible and serious tasks. To illuminate the current situation, explain its dialectical development, indicate the ways of further progress, fix them in the minds of the broad masses and contribute to the implementation of the immediate tasks of health care and the entire Soviet construction — this is the goal, this is the meaning of the existence of the medical press. " With these slogans, “Prof. M. “at age 8. The January book is made up of a number of interesting articles on a number of departments of the journal: on epidemiology and bacteriology — Zabello's article (“Micro-reaction according to Meinike. As a method of indicative selection in mass screening for syphilis”); on social hygiene and health statistics — article by prof. SA Tomilin ("The economy of the population — its socio-hygienic and national economic significance"): on occupational hygiene and labor protection — article by prof. SI Kaplun ("Research work in the field of studying and combating occupational health and safety diseases"); on the department — social diseases and everyday life — article by AD Shekhter (“On the question of combating venereal diseases in wartime”); on the organization of health care — an article by BM Polyansky ("The Rural Doctor and the Socialist Reorganization of the Village"). Particular attention is drawn to the article by prof. SA Tomilina with an attempt to in-depth assessment of a person and a human collective as a socio-biological and national economic category.