Paid for by the public purse : public health nursing -- Public authority for a private program : housing reform -- Bovines, babies, and bacteriology : the problems of crafting milk reform -- Delivering the city's children: midwives and municipal maternity programs -- The challenge of constructing venereal disease programs.
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Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs and highlights women's home health care, urban policy-changing accomplishments, and pays tribute to what would become the model for similar service-based systems in other Ame.
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Cultivating health.
9780813545288
Health care reform-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.
Women health reformers-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 19th century.