Dispensary
Dispensaire in George Town, Penang
In the health system of the GDR, a method of outpatient treatment in polyclinics , which was adopted from the Soviet health system in the 1950s, was called a dispensary
- the early and complete recording of all those at risk and at risk from a specific disease, such as diabetes mellitus ,
- the early treatment of all sick people as well
- aftercare and rehabilitation
included what is still partly carried out under this term. The term originally comes from French and referred to a dispensing point for medicine for the poor. The name was used by Émile Roux for the first counseling center for lung patients , which he set up in Lille in 1899 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckart Galas: Health Insurance and Diabetes Mellitus: Concepts for Improving the Care of Diabetics . Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, 2000, p. 64f.