Ch. 1 History Flashcards
Soranus
Greek physician
2nd century
Father of obstetrics
Podalic version
- what is it
- who discovered it
rotating the fetus to a breech position, used for twins
-Soranus
Karl Crede
19th century
instilling 2% silver nitrate into eyes to prevent blindness from gonorrhea
Ignaz Semmelweis
19th century
deduced that puerperal fever was septic, contagious and transmitted by poor hand hygeine
Lois Pasteur
French chemist
confirmed that puerperal fever is caused by bacteria
Joseph Lister
british surgeon
introduced antiseptic surgery
Hippocrates
wrote about illnesses peculiar to children
In the middle ages when did children become adults
age 7
Saint Vincent de Paul
founded children’s asylums that later became hospitals
First children’s hospital
Paris 1802
Children’s Aid Society
NYC 1853
cared for homeless children
First Pediatric hospital in united states
1855 Children’s hospital of Philadelphia
Abraham Jacobi
Father of pediatrics
Samuel Bard
1807
Wrote the first american textbook for midwives
Oliver Wendell Holmes
wrote a paper on contagious nature of puerperal fever
American Nurses Association
develop standards of practice
Sheppard-Towner Act of 1912
1921
gives funds for state-managed maternity care
Title V of the social security act
1935
gives funds for maternity care
Fair labor standards act
1938
child labor laws
National institutes of Health (NIH)
1962
established support for maternity research and education
Head start programs where started when?
1966
WIC program was started
1966
National center for family planning was started
1970
The child abuse prevention and treatment act (CAPTA) was started when
1974
Education for all handicapped children act
1975
gives support and public education to handicapped children
Title V amendment of the public health services act
1981
established maternal-infant care centers in public clinics
What was founded in 1982
Community mental health center and missing children’s act
Family and medical leave act of 1993 (FMLA)
allows for 12 weeks unpaid leave to care for newborns or sick family members without losing benefits or pay status
Title XIX of the medicaid program
1993
increased access to care by indigent women
when was HIPPA established
2003
health information technology for economic and clinical health act (HITECH)
2009
extends on Hippa to include electronic health records
Patient protection and affordable care act
2010
expanded health care coverage to millions of americans
American health care act (AHCA)
2017
executive order made it replace ACA
Lillian Wald
1912
- nurse who established federal children’s bureau
- founded henry street settlement that brought home health to poor children
What did the children’s bureau do
focused on infant mortality
led to birth registration
developed hot lunch programs in schools
what does the children’s bureau fall under
the department of health and human services
Theodore Roosevelt
called the first conference on children and youth in 1909