Andrija Stampar School Of Public Health University Of Zagreb School Of Medicine

The Andrija Stampar School of Public Health was founded in 1926, attributed to the initiative of a group of public health workers led by Dr. Andrija Štampar and the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The School was formally opened on October 3, 1927. In the first years of its functioning, the School was integrated with the Institute of Hygiene into one institution. At the time Institutes of Hygiene carried out very important tasks: they supervised and, in a way, directed the work of health institutions in their regions. The School was the top element of public hygienic service entrusted with the task to study conditions that might have favourable or unfavourable impacts on people's health. The School established a strong link between the academic and the professional community, i.e. the science, teaching, and practice. School's focus is primary care, family medicine, epidemiology, medical informatics. The unique feature of the School, important for the work of Consortium, is the Department for Educational Technology. Founded in 1986 on the experiences of a collaborative project of the Republic of Croatia and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) under the title “Continuous training for primary health care with the help of computer and video technology”. The tasks are: (a) monitoring the development of educational technology in the world and the transfer of technology and evaluation, (b) the implementation of continuing education and support teaching, (c) technical support of the teaching process, especially the creation of audio‐visual teaching materials, (d) the dissemination of scientific information and health education and (e) scientific research (basic, developmental and applied) in the field of education, medical decision‐making, expert systems, and educational psychology for senior citizens.