Nurse contribution to the construction of health policy in the state of Bahia (1925-1930).

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the contribution of nurses to the construction of health policy in the state of Bahia, from 1925 to 1930. METHODS: qualitative research, from a historical nature. Data were retrieved from five public archives, organized in a documentary corpus, and analyzed based on the health political analysis and the social control concepts, health policy and public health. RESULTS: from 1925 to 1930, the State seized the work of the woman/nurse and established it in public health. This fact enabled the nurse's contribution to the construction of the health policy of the state of Bahia, which took place by the implementation of sanitary education actions, home visits and hygienic surveillance. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the female nurse's work made the health policy of the state of Bahia viable and was an ideal instrument to access homes and instruct/advise people in their daily lives to adopt behaviors that prevent the occurrence and, above all, the spread of diseases.

Nurse contribution to the construction of health policy in the state of Bahia (1925-1930) / Participación de la enfermera en la construcción de la política de salud en Bahia (1925-1930) / Participação da enfermeira na construção da política de saúde na Bahia (1925-1930)

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the contribution of nurses to the construction of health policy in the state of Bahia, from 1925 to 1930. Methods: qualitative research, from a historical nature. Data were retrieved from five public archives, organized in a documentary corpus, and analyzed based on the health political analysis and the social control concepts, health policy and public health. Results: from 1925 to 1930, the State seized the work of the woman/nurse and established it in public health. This fact enabled the nurse's contribution to the construction of the health policy of the state of Bahia, which took place by the implementation of sanitary education actions, home visits and hygienic surveillance. Final considerations: the female nurse's work made the health policy of the state of Bahia viable and was an ideal instrument to access homes and instruct/advise people in their daily lives to adopt behaviors that prevent the occurrence and, above all, the spread of diseases.

RESUMEN Objetivos: analizar la participación de la enfermera en la construcción de la política de salud en Bahia entre 1925 y 1930. Métodos: investigación cualitativa de carácter histórico. Los datos fueron recolectados en cinco archivos públicos, organizados en un corpus documental y analizados a partir del análisis político en salud y los conceptos de control social, política de salud y salud pública. Resultados: entre 1925 y 1930, el Estado se apropió del trabajo de la mujer/enfermera y lo institucionalizó en el campo de la salud pública. Este hecho dio lugar a la participación de la enfermera en la construcción de la política de salud en Bahia, que se dio a través de la operacionalización de acciones de educación en salud, visitas domiciliarias y vigilancia higiénica. Consideraciones Finales: el trabajo de la enfermera hizo viable la política de salud en Bahia y fue un instrumento ideal para ingresar a los hogares y enseñar/asesorar a las personas en su vida diaria a adoptar comportamientos para prevenir la ocurrencia de enfermedades y, sobre todo, su propagación.

RESUMO Objetivos: analisar a participação da enfermeira na construção da política de saúde na Bahia entre 1925 e 1930. Métodos: pesquisa qualitativa de natureza histórica. Os dados foram coletados em cinco arquivos públicos, organizados em um corpus documental e analisados com base na análise política em saúde e nos conceitos de controle social, política de saúde e saúde pública. Resultados: entre 1925 e 1930, o Estado apropriou-se do trabalho da mulher/enfermeira e o institucionalizou no campo da saúde pública. Esse fato ensejou a participação da enfermeira na construção da política de saúde baiana, que ocorreu por meio da operacionalização das ações de educação sanitária, visita domiciliar e vigilância higiênica. Considerações Finais: o trabalho da enfermeira viabilizou a política de saúde baiana e foi um instrumento ideal para adentrar nos domicílios e ensinar/aconselhar as pessoas em seu cotidiano a adotarem condutas que evitassem a ocorrência e, sobretudo, a propagação das doenças.

Florence Nightingale: creator of modern nursing and public health pioneer.

In his 2008 series of articles on notable women in healthcare, Professor Harold Ellis celebrates Florence Nightingale's contribution to nursing, research and public health. This month, we republish his article to coincide with the 2020, 'Year of the Nurse and Midwife', celebrating the famous lady with the lamp's work in the Crimean War, as well as her pioneering work in the fields of nursing and public health, that helped shape current practice and research.

Nursing and the Public Health Legacies of the Russian Revolution.

The centenary of the October Revolution in 1917 provides a timely opportunity to assess the legacies of that event. I examine the role of the revolution in public health with a focus on nursing, assessing the Imperial Russian health care system, the development of Soviet nursing, and current plans for nursing and public health care in Putin's Russia. Analyzing nursing shows that there was a great deal of continuity in terms of medical personnel and ideas on how public health care service in Russia should operate. Nursing illuminates some of the complexities of Soviet health care and ideology, particularly the state's desire to create a socialist form of nursing in theory, despite the strong links with the prerevolutionary past in the form of personnel. This situation changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the new Russian state attempted to sever connections with the past, this time with the Soviet past. But as I show, making a clean break with the past is a difficult and often fraught process.

Cornerstone Documents, Milestones, and Policies: Shaping the Direction of Public Health Nursing 1890-1950.

The interplay of policy, milestone events, and cornerstone documents was critical in the evolution of the specialty of public health nursing (PHN) from 1890-1950. Using our contemporary lens, this article examines PHN development from an historical perspective, including events and milestones driving growth in the early 20th century. Some of the challenges faced by our founding public health nursing leadership are not unlike challenges we face today. In 1950, Ruth Hubbard, a former leader in the National Organization of Public Health Nurses and Director of the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia, spoke of the value of examining the past to forge a new future. This article calls for contemporary public health nurses to act upon the lessons learned from the past, to strengthen the renewed focus on prevention, to develop policies that impact population health, and to foster a vision that will guide us into the future.

[The importation of western nursing in Pakhoi and its influence in modern China].

In 1878, Church Missionary Society entered Pakhoi for their missionary work. In April 1886, the Po Yan Hospital was set up in Pakhoi, and a Leper Settlement was established nearby in 1899. The modern western scientific nursing work was actively introduced, thus the work of nursing was professionalized, which improved the development of local society and the female emancipation, and a wealth of local nursing professionals were trained, the health career in Pakhoi was developed.

Eugenics in the community: gendered professions and eugenic sterilization in Alberta, 1928-1972.

Scholarship on Alberta's Sexual Sterilization Act (1928-1972) has focused on the high-level politics behind the legislation, its main administrative body, the Eugenics Board, and its legal legacy, overlooking the largely female-dominated professions that were responsible for operating the program outside of the provincial mental health institutions. This paper investigates the relationship between eugenics and the professions of teaching, public health nursing, and social work. It argues that the Canadian mental hygiene and eugenics movements, which were fundamentally connected, provided these professions with an opportunity to maintain and extend their professional authority.

"Something must be done!": public health nursing education in the United States from 1900 to 1950.

This article examines public health nursing (PHN) education in the United States from 1900 to 1950. Following establishment of district nursing and the Henry Street Settlement in the late 1800s, nurses worked with families and communities in schools, homes, and with immigrant populations in tenements of industrialized cities. By the early 1900s, PHN leaders recognized that graduates needed broader education than provided by hospital training schools to prepare nurses to address social conditions and promote health and hygiene for populations. Current themes in professional nursing, such as social determinants of health, have their roots in early discourse about PHN education.