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. 2010 Jul;100(7):1206-7.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.186049. Epub 2010 May 13.

The origins of public health nursing: the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service

Elizabeth Fee  1 , Liping Bu
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The origins of public health nursing: the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service

Elizabeth Fee et al. Am J Public Health. 2010 Jul.
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Miss Pearson of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service with a Chinese mother and her 7 children. Source. Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.
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References

    1. Wald Lillian, The House on Henry Street (New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1915), 6–7
    1. Buhler-Wilkerson Karen. No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States, (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 98–113 - PubMed
    1. New York Times, “Nursing Service Grows: 32,753 Patients Cared for by Henry Street Organization,” March 11, 1918.
    1. News about nursing, The American Journal of Nursing 40, no. 2 (1940): 210–226
    1. Visiting Nurse Service of New York Website. Available at: http//www.vnsny.org. (Accessed October 23, 2009)

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