Author: John Adams Kingsbury
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Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: John A. Kingsbury
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Category : Nurses and nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Author: Patricia D'Antonio
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813571049
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that these local health programs—and the nurses who ran them—influenced how Americans perceived both their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities. Nursing with a Message transports readers to New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, charting the rise and fall of two community health centers, in the neighborhoods of East Harlem and Bellevue-Yorkville. Award-winning historian Patricia D’Antonio examines the day-to-day operations of these clinics, as well as the community outreach work done by nurses who visited schools, churches, and homes encouraging neighborhood residents to adopt healthier lifestyles, engage with preventive physical exams, and see to the health of their preschool children. As she reveals, these programs relied upon an often-contentious and fragile alliance between various healthcare providers, educators, social workers, and funding agencies, both public and private. Assessing both the successes and failures of these public health demonstration projects, D’Antonio also traces their legacy in shaping both the best and worst elements of today’s primary care system.

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Category : Public health nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: Christine Ardalan
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813072166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award Highlighting the long unacknowledged role of a group of pioneering professional women, The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida tells the story of healthcare workers who battled racism in a state where white supremacy formed the bedrock of society. They aimed to serve those people out of reach of modern medical care. In the era of Jim Crow discrimination, their marginalization in medical facilities—along with the overall medical neglect to address their health—meant that many African Americans in rural communities rarely saw doctors. Christine Ardalan shows how Florida’s public health nurses took up the charge, traveling into the Florida scrub to deliver health improvement information to the homes of Black and white residents, many of whom were illiterate. Drawing on a rich body of public health and nursing records, Ardalan draws attention to the innovative ways nurses bridged the gap between these communities and government policies that addressed threats of infection and high rates of infant and maternal mortality. From the progressive era to the civil rights movement, Florida’s public health nurses worked to overcome the constraints of segregation. Their story is echoed by the experiences of today’s community health nurses, who are keenly aware that maintaining healthy lives for all Americans requires tackling the nation’s deep-rooted cultural challenges.

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Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 894

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Author: Patricia D'Antonio
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826105777
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.)
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1420

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Includes section "Books and reports."