Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States
February 24, 2021
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Outdoors/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Wellbeing Care in the United States, a new on the web exhibition.
Guest curated by historian and educator Beatrix Hoffman, PhD, Northern Illinois College, Outside/Inside primarily options things from the NLM historical collections and explores the record of thoughts about immigrant health and immigrants’ and migrants’ activities with U.S. wellness care due to the fact the late 1800s. Health and fitness care and medicine have played a purpose 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 shield our health and very well-remaining.
The on the internet exhibition incorporates an education and learning part featuring a K-12 lesson prepare and a college module produced by the visitor curator. The digital gallery showcases a image album from the 1930s made by and depicting going to nurses from the Henry Street Settlement social services company, at operate caring for an immigrant group in the Bronx. This selection of photographs is also available in its entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The Henry Avenue Traveling to Nurse Services introduced powerful wellbeing care to immigrants in their residences and their communities
Greenwich Mothers’ Club of the Henry Road Settlement, Decrease East Aspect, New York Metropolis, ca. 1932
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Wellbeing Aide Dorthy Press visits a migrant relatives in migrant workers’ camp outside Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for Community Health and fitness Service World, 1966
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Migrant staff and their families, who live on the go, encounter a lot of obstacles to acquiring treatment. In 1985, nurses and doctors dedicated to enhancing wellness treatment for migrant farmers fashioned the grassroots-primarily based Migrant Clinicians Network.
Companions for Overall health: Compañeros En La Salud!, Migrant Clinicians Community, Austin, Texas, late 20th century
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The Union Well being Heart was opened in 1913 by the Intercontinental Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to serve its generally Jewish and Italian immigrant membership. Like Henry Road, the UHC considered that workers’ legal rights provided a suitable to health-related treatment and secure doing the job conditions. It is continue to in procedure these days
Triennial Report: 1947–1949, Union Overall health Heart, New York, ca. 1950
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