Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States
February 24, 2021
The National Library of Medication (NLM) announces Outside/Inside of: Immigration, Migration, and Overall health Treatment in the United States, a new on line exhibition.
Guest curated by historian and educator Beatrix Hoffman, PhD, Northern Illinois College, Outside/Inside of mainly options goods from the NLM historical collections and explores the history of strategies about immigrant health and fitness and immigrants’ and migrants’ encounters with U.S. health and fitness treatment considering the fact that the late 1800s. Overall health treatment and drugs have performed a part in inclusion and exclusion, in “assimilation” and discrimination, in dividing communities and strengthening them. The history portrayed in this exhibition reminds us that we all share a motivation to secure our health and fitness and well-remaining.
The on line exhibition incorporates an instruction element that includes a K-12 lesson system and a college module designed by the guest curator. The electronic gallery showcases a photo album from the thirties developed by and depicting visiting nurses from the Henry Road Settlement social company company, at function caring for an immigrant local community in the Bronx. This assortment of images is also accessible in its entirety in NLM Electronic Collections.
The Henry Road Viewing Nurse Assistance introduced efficient health and fitness treatment to immigrants in their houses and their communities
Greenwich Mothers’ Club of the Henry Road Settlement, Lower East Facet, New York City, ca. 1932
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Overall health Aide Dorthy Press visits a migrant spouse and children in migrant workers’ camp outside Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for General public Overall health Assistance Entire world, 1966
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Migrant workers and their households, who reside on the move, face several road blocks to acquiring treatment. In 1985, nurses and medical professionals committed to bettering health and fitness treatment for migrant farmers fashioned the grassroots-dependent Migrant Clinicians Network.
Partners for Overall health: Compañeros En La Salud!, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin, Texas, late 20th century
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The Union Overall health Centre was opened in 1913 by the Global Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to serve its primarily Jewish and Italian immigrant membership. Like Henry Road, the UHC considered that workers’ rights provided a suitable to medical treatment and protected functioning ailments. It is nevertheless in operation now
Triennial Report: 1947–1949, Union Overall health Centre, New York, ca. 1950
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