The evolution of public health system and health culture is one of the important indicators of cultural achievements of an individual society. Preservation of archival material in the field of health care is the key issue in this. Preserved and properly kept material of health institutions enables researchers to explore and evaluate past developments, thus keeping them in historical memory. A broader subject of illness, health and medical treatment is examined by the discipline the history of medicine which studies the impact of medicine on society or how society formed medicine in different historical periods. While Slovenians consider health and the related fully accessible public health to be one of the greatest values, this is not reflected in Slovenian humanist research. The subject of health in our research has become more pronounced in the last fifteen years and is, in comparison with the most prominent subjects of Slovenian national historiography, seen as an interesting but less important subject. While the area of research of the social history of medicine has a sixty-year tradition in certain Western European historiographies and the most recognised English and German specialized magazines have been publishing articles in this field for several decades, such research fall far behind in Slovenia. Medical history research will be significantly affected by the Act Regulating Archival Material Containing Personal Data from Medical Records which will impose restrictions on the accessibility of health institutions‘ archival material, thus significantly slowing down the research of history of medicine.