Abstract
Based on historical and medical literature, statistical handbooks and published sources, the article analyses the demographic and sanitary-epidemiological situation in the Uzbek SSR in the first postwar years (1946–1953) and the decisive measures implemented by the state. The consequences of wartime human losses, the compensatory rise in the birth rate, the epidemic burden of malaria and other infectious diseases, as well as the reorganisation of the health-care network, the anti-malaria campaign, mass immunisation and the development of maternal and child health services are examined. It is concluded that the measures of 1946–1953 laid the foundation for the sanitary transformation of the republic in the following decades.
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