Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City

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Title

Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City

Subject

Public health

Description

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.

Creator

D'Antonio, Patricia

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27601

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Date

2017

Contributor

Sukma Kartikasari

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI: 10.26530/oapen_625283
ISBN: 9780813571041

Coverage

Public Health

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