9 ‘Community healthcare’
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Rima D. Apple
Abstract
In the first half of the twentieth century, concern for community health, particularly worries over the high rates of infant and maternal mortality and tuberculosis cases, spurred the development of public health nursing in the United States. The Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association (WATA) initiated the first public health nursing programme in the state. The work and the itinerant nature of WATA's popular public health demonstration nurse programme gives some insight into the accommodations and conflicts inherent in a scramble between competing agencies. Transient clinics examined preschool and school children during the decades of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s in Wisconsin. This chapter addresses how the nurses handled potential professional conflicts with other nurses. An analysis of the experiences of these early public health nurses can help clarify the evolution of the system we have today and remind us of the practicalities that shape complex health systems.
Abstract
In the first half of the twentieth century, concern for community health, particularly worries over the high rates of infant and maternal mortality and tuberculosis cases, spurred the development of public health nursing in the United States. The Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association (WATA) initiated the first public health nursing programme in the state. The work and the itinerant nature of WATA's popular public health demonstration nurse programme gives some insight into the accommodations and conflicts inherent in a scramble between competing agencies. Transient clinics examined preschool and school children during the decades of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s in Wisconsin. This chapter addresses how the nurses handled potential professional conflicts with other nurses. An analysis of the experiences of these early public health nurses can help clarify the evolution of the system we have today and remind us of the practicalities that shape complex health systems.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
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Part I Care and cure in nursing work
- 1 Baby and infant healthcare in Dresden, 1897–1930 21
- 2 The taste of war 35
- 3 ‘In the company of those similarly afflicted’ 52
- 4 ‘Hurting and caring’ 69
- 5 A poverty of leadership 82
- 6 Beyond the cuckoo’s nest 100
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Part II Public health and nursing work
- 7 The cholera epidemic of 1892 and its impact on modernising public health and nursing in Hamburg 123
- 8 ‘Some kindred form of medical social work’ 144
- 9 ‘Community healthcare’ 163
- 10 Nurses in schools, coal towns and migrant camps 180
- Index 200
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
-
Part I Care and cure in nursing work
- 1 Baby and infant healthcare in Dresden, 1897–1930 21
- 2 The taste of war 35
- 3 ‘In the company of those similarly afflicted’ 52
- 4 ‘Hurting and caring’ 69
- 5 A poverty of leadership 82
- 6 Beyond the cuckoo’s nest 100
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Part II Public health and nursing work
- 7 The cholera epidemic of 1892 and its impact on modernising public health and nursing in Hamburg 123
- 8 ‘Some kindred form of medical social work’ 144
- 9 ‘Community healthcare’ 163
- 10 Nurses in schools, coal towns and migrant camps 180
- Index 200
