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oapen-20.500.12657-456602023-06-05T13:08:53Z Nursing with a Message D'Antonio, Patricia History East Harlem Health care New York City Nursing Public health Public health nursing Social work Tuberculosis 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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-02-25 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:48:08Z 2020-04-01T13:48:08Z 2017 book 625283 OCN: 966671732 9780813571041 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45660 eng Critical Issues in Health and Medicine application/pdf n/a 625283.pdf Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press 10.26530/oapen_625283 100272 10.26530/oapen_625283 111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780813571041 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Rutgers University Press New Brunswick 100272 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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