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public health history sources with attribution, describe examples, and distinguish preventoria from sanatoria for the sick, from open-air schools and from modern children s hospitals.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Prevention not treatment","Children","Rest and nutrition regime","Early 20th century"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What a preventorium was.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What was a preventorium, and how did it differ from a sanatorium, an open-air school and a modern hospital?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about the institution, a specific site or tuberculosis 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the experiences of children separated from their families.","Give medical advice on tuberculosis prevention for a specific person.","Share identifying records of former child residents."],"requiresHuman":["Releasing archival records that name former residents."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Children were often removed from poor families for months, which deserves honest telling.","Records of former residents touch on the privacy of living people and their families."],"affectedParties":["Former child residents","Their families"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody now; archives and historians hold their records.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Institutional archives"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q4260475","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"medical facility","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"tuberculosis","type":"related","note":"in children"},{"target":"sanatorium","type":"related","note":"for treating the sick"},{"target":"open-air 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