PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
Nursing Organizations ◽  
Health Nursing

Realignment of the national nursing organizations will make it possible for nursing to achieve close coordination of effort and at the same time preserve the diversity which stimulates the growth of various phases of nursing.

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-324
Author(s):  
BETTY HUSE ◽  
W. H. AUFRANC ◽  
MARY S. GOODWIN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Congenital Syphilis ◽  
Case Finding ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
Health Nursing

Congenital syphilis still occurs too frequently. The transmission of the disease to infants can be eliminated through adequate case-finding and treatment of pregnant women. For those children who, in spite of past and present efforts to control syphilis among pregnant women, have congenital syphilis, the goal is detection and treatment at the youngest age possible.

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-363
Author(s):  
HENRY F. HELMHOLZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Great Accuracy ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Percentage Increase ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Nursing

TODAY there are about 60,000 more people in the world to feed, clothe and house than there were yesterday; and tomorrow there will be 60,000 more than there are today. This continuous excess of births over deaths is more marked now than ever before in history, an excess of approximately 20,000,000 in a year. It is hardly necessary to point out here that a claim for great accuracy cannot be made for the figures given in this paper. Such as they are, however, they can support the main contention of this communication. It is estimated that there are about 2,500,000,000 people in the world today. The population in 5000 B.C. has been reckoned at from 5 to 10 million; in 3500 B.C., from 20 to 40 million; between 1000-500 B.C. 100 million; between 100-500 A.D. 200 million; in 1825, 1 billion (1,000,000,000) and in 1930, 2 billion (2,000,000,000). The percentage increase in the years B.C. was 0.05%, from 1650-1750 A.D., 0.29% and from 1900 to 1950 A.D., 0.75%. It is estimated that at present the increase in population is about 1% a year, which figures out to an increase of 2 persons every 3 seconds, and 200,000,000 in a decade. In spite of World War II, Europe increased 20,000,000 in population from 1940 to 1950.

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING, MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-361
Author(s):  
Helen M. Wallace ◽  
Amelia Igel ◽  
Margaret A. Losty
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Inpatient Care ◽  
Foster Home ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
Definitive Method ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Home Placement

Need for a foster home placement program for handicapped children in an urban area was demonstrated by sending a questionnaire to hospitals and convalescent homes, and by careful review of certain children whose inpatient care was being paid for by the official Crippled Children Program. The outstanding fact was that a significant number of handicapped children were being retained in institutions for social, and not medical, reasons. Agreement was reached among social agencies that a co-ordinated community program for foster home placement of handicapped children was necessary but a definitive method was not evolved nor were adequate funds secured to finance costs.

Waking Up Communities and Seeking Out the Sick in Town and Countryside, 1914 to 1917

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-52
Author(s):  
Christine Ardalan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
White Women ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Health Nursing ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Nursing Organizations ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Black Health

Chapter 1 plants the roots of public health nursing in Jacksonville, home of the State Board of Health and the focal point for health reforms in the state. The chapter then defines the work of the new state nurses as they began to wake up Florida’s small towns and the neglected rural districts. When professionalization offered the nurses a means to make connections in communities, the Board’s choice of nurses became a lens to explore the problems of nursing outreach for both black and white women. The public health nurses’ connections with clubwomen and the black and white national nursing organizations offer contrasting stories of professionalization as the nurses illuminate their work to improve rural and black health. The state’s short-lived fledgling program lasted only through the fiscal years of 1914 to 1916, but public health nursing grew locally, sustained in part by the long reach of white and black national philanthropic organizations.

PUBLIC HEALTH, NURSING AND MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-774
Author(s):  
Charles U. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Medical Social Work ◽  
South Central ◽  
Surface Transportation ◽  
Hindu Kush ◽  
Desert Areas ◽  
Health Nursing

Afghanistan is a country in south central Asia, approximately rectangular in shape, with an area estimated at 250,000 square miles. Its borders have been inadequately surveyed and many sections are as yet unvisited by foreigners. The Hindu Kush Mountains divide it roughly from northeast to southwest; they make surface transportation slow and difficult, and along with the desert areas of the southwest sector, reduce the tillable land to less than 20,000 square miles. In spite of this, Afghanistan raises more than enough food to feed its Population and has sufficient surplus to export. Its climate is hot in the summer and very cold in the winter, while rainfall is scarce, rarely averaging more than 11 inches Per year. Racially, 5 ethnic groups make up its population. In the east, and along the Pakistan border, one finds the Pathans. These are tall, frequently fair individuals, claiming descent from both the Greek legions of Alexander and the ancient tribes of Israel. In a broad band running mainly along the Russian border and the Oxus River are the Turkmen, herdsmen and breeders of karakul sheep. South of these, and inhabiting the center of the country from Kabul to Meshed in Persia live the Hazaris, descendents from Genghis Kahn's slaughtering hordes.

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