["Public health and scientific-technical progress"]

The tasks of the hygienic and social-medical oriented special disciplines are summarizingly presented in relation to the state of the development of sciences and the social changes at the turn of the years 1989/90. The Hygienic Congress 1990 at Berlin was directed to the contribution of hygienic and social-medical disciplines during the practical performance of health protection of the population under the conditions of the scientific-technical progress.