Hungarian Central Statistical Office, The Book of Statistics, 1989, p. 242; and “Statistical Data about the Social and Health Situation in Hungary,”Journal of Public Health, 1990, no. 2, pp. 65–131.
2.
In the socialist regime, state control was exericsed through the pronouncement of edicts. Edicts were supplemented by laws declared by Parliament. In past decades, there were years when the Parliament did not pass any new laws. On average, four to six laws were passed annually.
3.
Regulation #22/1979 (Eu. K.15) Eu. M of the occupational health sevices.
4.
Opposition to expanding the rights of plant doctors has had a number of sources. We may speculate that the opportunity to earn “black money” from workers in return for granting sick leave, the prevalence of “moonlighting” among company doctors, and the high percentage of women among the ranks of company doctors all contributed to the opposition of general practitioners and specialists to extending the right to grant sick leave to most company doctors.
5.
It should be noted that in 1976 male life expectancy in Hungary was 66.6 years and female life expectancy 72.5 years. In Europe, this represents one of the highest mortality rates.
6.
For a fuller description of this study, see FuzesiS., “The State of the Health of the Young,”Youth Review (English Language Issue)1988, pp. 89–96; and FuzesiZs. and MelegCs., “Social Factors in the Health of Hungarian Youth,” in AndorkaR. and BertalanL., Economy and Society in Hungary (Hungarian Sociological Studies, No. 3)Budapest, 1986, pp. 203–219.
