“Separation is Required in Our Special Situation”:
Minority Public Health Programs in Interwar Transylvania
Zsuzsa Bokor
Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities
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Hungarian Historical Review Volume 12 Issue 3 (2023):395–432 DOI 10.38145/2023.3.395
This paper presents the distinctive manner in which the Hungarian public health system in Transylvania was built up, parallel to the state structures in the interwar period. In several policies and public health projects, the young medical generation of the 1930s formed the basis of the biologically based ethnic community of Hungarians in Transylvania. This process was presented by them as part of ethnic survival and made the presence of the doctor necessary. The paper discusses the foundation of minority health institutes and also the discourses around the formation of these.
Keywords: public health, interwar, Transylvania, Hungarian doctors, minority health protection, maternal and infant protection