Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States
February 24, 2021
The National Library of Medication (NLM) announces Exterior/Inside of: Immigration, Migration, and Health Treatment in the United States, a new on the web exhibition.
Guest curated by historian and educator Beatrix Hoffman, PhD, Northern Illinois College, Exterior/Inside of mostly characteristics products from the NLM historic collections and explores the historical past of strategies about immigrant health and fitness and immigrants’ and migrants’ encounters with U.S. health and fitness care considering the fact that the late 1800s. Health care and medicine have performed a function in inclusion and exclusion, in “assimilation” and discrimination, in dividing communities and strengthening them. The historical past portrayed in this exhibition reminds us that we all share a drive to guard our health and fitness and well-currently being.
The on the web exhibition involves an training ingredient that includes a K-twelve lesson prepare and a college module made by the visitor curator. The electronic gallery showcases a photo album from the nineteen thirties designed by and depicting going to nurses from the Henry Street Settlement social support agency, at perform caring for an immigrant neighborhood in the Bronx. This choice of pictures is also available in its entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The Henry Street Browsing Nurse Assistance brought effective health and fitness care to immigrants in their residences and their communities
Greenwich Mothers’ Club of the Henry Street Settlement, Lessen East Facet, New York City, ca. 1932
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Health Aide Dorthy Press visits a migrant household in migrant workers’ camp outside the house Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for Public Health Assistance Earth, 1966
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Migrant staff and their people, who live on the shift, confront several obstacles to getting care. In 1985, nurses and medical professionals devoted to bettering health and fitness care for migrant farmers fashioned the grassroots-centered Migrant Clinicians Community.
Partners for Health: Compañeros En La Salud!, Migrant Clinicians Community, Austin, Texas, late twentieth century
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The Union Health Heart was opened in 1913 by the Global Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to serve its typically Jewish and Italian immigrant membership. Like Henry Street, the UHC believed that workers’ legal rights provided a suitable to clinical care and protected operating circumstances. It is however in operation these days
Triennial Report: 1947–1949, Union Health Heart, New York, ca. 1950
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