Module 12 Flashcards
Public health efforts in the late 1800s focused on what
environmental conditions such as sanitation, control of communicable diseases, education for health, prevention of disease and disability, and care of aged and sick persons in their homes
Public and community health nurses are products of various what
social, economic, and political forces, and incorporate both the sciences of public health and nursing science.
What is the mission of public health nursing
The promotion of health and the prevention of disease
To preserve, protect, and improve the health of populations through activities that improve the environment, encourage lifestyle and behavior change, and assure access to care
All people and cultures have been concerned with events surrounding waht
birth
death
illness
How have various historical events of public health activities reflected the state of knowledge at the time
Spiritual cleanliness and community responsibility of the ancient Hebrews
Systems of personal hygiene practiced by the Greeks
Romans developed public health as a governmental matter beyond individual practice
Clean water, effective sewage removal, swamp drainage systems were the forerunner of politically sanctioned environmental protections of the public’s health
Ancient Babylonians: understood need for hygiene; some medical skills
Egyptians: variety of pharmaceutical preparation; public drainage systems; earth privies
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601: guaranteed assistance for poor, blind, and “lame” individuals.
Industrial Revolution: previous care structures (family & friends) were not enough so created nursing care institutions & homes
How was the Medieval period important to public health?
Walled towns with crowded together people in very unsanitary conditions led to the development and rapid spread of disease, with little treatment
Most deaths at the time related back to infectious disease
Causative Agent of the Black Death
Yersinia Pestis
Found on rat flees
1/10 died even if treated
How was the Renaissance important to public health
Development of the idea that when a political jurisdiction protected and cared for its citizens, it could reap the economic benefits of production and world trade
Healthy laborers and soldiers became valuable commodities
Health workers seen as a valuable commodity and that healthcare ensured a countries stability
John Bellers
worked with poor in London and argued pop health was too valuable to left to the individual and was the responsibility of the state
Edwin Chadwick
social reformed
Drafted the poor law commission of 1834
Advocated using data to link population characteristics, environmental conditions, and the incidence of disease
Chadwick Report
Poor Law Commission of 1834
Said Government should be involved in protecting the citizens health
improved the sanitation and led to establishing poor houses, workhouses, hospitals, and provisions of service to the poor in England
Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601
Systems to care for the sick, poor, aged, mentally ill, and dependents
What forced early US towns to assume responsibility for the collective health of the people?
Cholera and Yellow Fever
*it started as a family/friend system of care
In 1751 the first what was established in America
hospital
Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia
New York Poor Law of 1788
towns were to establish almshouses for the care of the poor; persisted into the 1930s
Early US public health initiatives were motivated by …
economic concerns more so than humanitarian ones
The 1798 Marine Hospital Service would later become …
the Public Health Service
What was founded in 1847 in the US
The American medical association
Lemuel Shattuck
Architect of America Public Health
Provided the report of the sanitary commission of Massachusetts (1850) that documented the differences in morbidity and morality in different locations and linked them to the environment
revolutionized the US census
First Epidemiologist
John Snow
John Snow
first epidemiologist
important roll in 1854 london cholera epidemic by finding the source of cholera at a well
introduced the idea of public health policy that ended the problem
Florence Nightengale
Similar to a public nurse
Crimean War
Used Stat data to prove theories
organized nursing education in hospitals
political reformer for the development of professional and public health nursing in the US
Believed nursing should promote health and prevent illness - emphasis on proper nutrition, rest, sanitation, and hygiene
Avid reader and supported the chadwick report
William Rathbone
Founded the 1st district nursing association in liverpool england
realized there was a lack of trained nursing and training was disorganized and variable in quality
in 1860. F Nightengale advised him to start a nurse training school and home for nurses attached to royal infirmary
Lady Superintendent of each liverpool district underwrote the costs
First US Nursing School
1873
NYC Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing (Following Nightingale principles)
Second and Third Nursing Schools to Open in US
- Mass General Hospital
- Connecticut Hospital in Hartford
Mary Mahoney
1st AA graduate from nursing school in 1879
She worked with Adah Thoms to found the National Association of Colored Grad NUrses to raise standards for AA nurses
Jessie Sleet (Scales)
1st AA Public Health Nurse when she was hired by NYC Charity Organization Society in 1900
Who was caused the first emergence of home visiting
Saint Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent De Paul
1612 - worked as a priest and felt convinced he should work with the poor too
1617 - worked among the poor through contact with daughters of charity
Irish Sisters of Charity
1815 Deaconesses
Did what is considered early nursing
Incorporated care of the sick at home and developed a system of district nursing
The idea of Public Health and Public Health nursing did not begin until
1923
What was established in 1869
mass board of health
What was established in 1872
American public health association(APHA) established
What occurred in 1881
Clara Barton established the American Red Cross
The Late 1800s marked the formation of what in the US
local health dept in urban areas
What was established in 1923
Public health nursing section of the APHA made
took till then to make public health nursing a thing
Clara Barton
founded Red Cross in 1881 and its Rural Nursing Service which initiated home nursing care in areas outside larger cities
Henry Street Settlement
non profit healthcare for large immigrant population in NYC and works toward social justice reforms
Who founded the Henry Street Settlement
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster in 1893
Ada Mayo Steward
worked with families in home visits to help grow industrial nursing into occupational health nursing (related to jobs)
Lina Rogers
Henry Street Settlement resident who became the first school nurse in 1902
She decreased absenteeism by 90% prompting NYC to hire 27 more school nurses
School nursing was also an extension of ..
home visits
___ ___ was the first public health nurse as well as the first to provide home visits for policy holders of insurance
Lillian Wald
Mary Adelaide Nutting
developed 1 post training school course specializing in public health nursing