Introduction: Although with the onset of the activities of clinics in Tehran and major cities mortality was somehow reduced, still treating mother- and child-related diseases was affected by traditional medicine. Therefore, the need to promote general knowledge and modern education to traditional physicians was highly tangible to educated physicians and urged them to take urgent action to resolve this problem. In this way, three main educational approaches were chosen for different target groups: education and public awareness through publishing scientific and health articles in journals, the teaching of traditional physicians through the study of compiled and translated specialized books, and the inclusion of health education courses in elementary education. The author has been able to compile materials about the establishment of new schools and classical education through the materials contained in the archives and libraries of the country, especially the National Library of the National Documentation Center.
Conclusion: Although a small number of national and state schools were established in Tehran and the center of the states for the education of girls before the Constitutional Revolution (Mashrootiat) with the assistance of the educators of that age, the need to promote the health knowledge, especially the health of mothers and children for educated physicians and midwives was essential. They tried to improve public health knowledge and public awareness of women via the modern education approach through: 1) scientific articles in journals, 2) compilation and translation of books, and 3) public education in schools; in the later years, these trainings lead to the establishment of the Higher School of Midwifery.
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