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E Fee

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PubMed1993

Partners in community health: the Baltimore City Health Department, the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the Eastern Health District, 1932-1992.

The Eastern Health District of Baltimore was established in 1932 as an early partnership between the Baltimore City Health Department and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Although its heydey occurred in the thirties and forties, for 51 years the district has provided data for researchers studying community health problems; learning opportunities for students in medicine, nursing, and public health administration; and a wide array of clinical and public health services to urban residents. The Eastern Health District concept has been copied worldwide, and although the partnership between the health department and the school of public health has changed over the years, some collaborative activities continue the tradition of research and service provision.

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PubMed1992

More in sorrow than in anger: the British nurses' strike of 1988.

In early 1988 the nurses of Britain's National Health Service reached a peak of frustration. They took unprecedented industrial action to bring the state of nursing, and problems within the Health Service, to the attention of the nation. Throughout the crisis there was acrimonious debate between the Royal College of Nursing, which acts as both a professional association and a negotiating unit and opposed the strike, and the trade unions, which organized it. Their conflict undermined the nurses' solidarity and highlighted deep and complex tensions within the profession. On the day of action, labor withdrawal was widespread but inconsistent. In the end, the nurses made some gains, but most of their concerns were ignored. The government promoted the divisions between nursing unions; the media were critical of the nurses' actions; however, the labor movement supported them, and the British Medical Journal voiced the merits of the nurses' case. The struggle of the British nurses exemplifies issues and dilemmas facing nurses throughout the world. The increasing militancy of nurses in many countries reflects their dissatisfaction with pay, working conditions, and career opportunities. Many nurses are torn between the ideals of professionalism and the realities of their workplace and are ambivalent about the principles of collective bargaining. This article addresses these ambivalences and stresses the need to find creative solutions to match nurses' unique place in the political economy of health care.

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PubMed1989

Science and social reform: women in public health.

This paper examines the historical role of women in public health, and argues that the recent trend of larger numbers of women entering schools of public health is not so much a new phenomenon as a recovery of some of the traditions of the progressive era. Public health was then seen as compatible with the ideology of womanhood, a legitimate way for middle-class women to participate in public life. Women physicians, nurses, and scientists were prominent in the early public health movement, in such areas as maternal and child health, statistics, bacteriology, and occupational health. This paper highlights the contributions of some of the women involved in public health research and practice. It concludes by noting that the motivations of many women students in schools of public health today are similar to those expressed by the social reformers and scientists of the progressive era.

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