The Origins of Public Health Nursing: The Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service.

• Autores: Elizabeth Fee, Liping Bu
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 100, Nº. 7, 2010, págs. 1206-1207
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the history of public health nursing, noting its pioneer Lillian Wald and her role in defining the practice to include care for social and economic problems as well as sickness. The article describes efforts taken by Wald and her nursing partner Mary Brewster to help tenement dwellers in New York City and the history of the pair's Henry Street Nurses' Settlement. The associated Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service grew to provide services to the poor and immigrants across the city. A photograph of Henry Street visiting nurse Miss Pearson with a Chinese mother and her children is described.