Health care institutes -. Specialized healthcare institutions they follow, explore and study the health condition of the population, the causes of the emergence and the spread of contagious and other diseases of the Social Medicine for Health Care of the City of Skopje, the impact of various factors (including and including Environmental) on human health, propose and take measures for protection and improvement of health. The health care institutes are organized at an inter-municipal (regional) and the republic level for the implementation of activities from the sanitary-hygienic, epidemiological, laboratory and social-medical activity. The first hygienic institutes, as independent institutions in some major municipalities, were formed in 1959, and since 1965. They enter into a composition of medical centers until 1993, when separating themselves as independent public health organizations. In the Republic of Macedonia, 10 regional offices (Bitola, Kocani, Kumanovo, Oh-Reid, Prilep, Strumica, Skopje, Tetovo, Veles and Stip), one Republic Institute for Health Protection in Skopje and one military institute for preventive medicine in Skopje –
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