Nursing With a Message : Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City / Patricia D'Antonio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Antonio, Patricia, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100272

ISBN:

9780813571041

OCLC:

966671732

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access