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Bringing care to the people: Lillian Wald's legacy to public health nursing.

Author(s) -

Karen BuhlerWilkerson

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.83.12.1778

Subject(s) - centennial , public health , public health nursing , recreation , nursing , health care , payment , medicine , gerontology , political science , business , law , finance , pathology

Lillian Wald invented public health nursing in 1893, making this year the field's centennial. One of nursing's visionaries, Wald secured reforms in health, industry, education, recreation, and housing. This historical inquiry examines three of Wald's critical experiments, each of which illuminates the past of public health nursing and its contemporary dilemmas: invention of public health nursing itself, establishment of a nationwide system of insurance payments for home-based care, and creation of a national public health nursing service.

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