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Mississippi Public Health Nurses and Midwives: A Partnership That Worked
Author(s) -
Roberts Edna R.,
Reeb Rene M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1994.tb00390.x
Subject(s) - public health , general partnership , nursing , medicine , state (computer science) , infant mortality , health care , family medicine , political science , environmental health , population , algorithm , computer science , law
At the turn of the century maternal and infant mortality rates were high in this southern state. Untrained midwives conducted many of the deliveries. Initial support for locating and training midwives by public health nurses was provided by the American Red Cross and the United States Public Health Services. Later, funding from a philanthropic organization (Rockefeller International Foundation) provided a mechanism that brought Mississippi public health nurses and midwives to a partnership that endured for over a half a century, and contributed to better maternal‐infant health care outcomes for that state.