Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States
2 min readFebruary 24, 2021
The Countrywide Library of Medicine (NLM) announces Exterior/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Treatment in the United States, a new on the internet exhibition.
Guest curated by historian and educator Beatrix Hoffman, PhD, Northern Illinois University, Exterior/Inside largely functions items from the NLM historical collections and explores the heritage of thoughts about immigrant well being and immigrants’ and migrants’ ordeals with U.S. well being treatment considering that the late 1800s. Health treatment and medicine have performed a role in inclusion and exclusion, in “assimilation” and discrimination, in dividing communities and strengthening them. The heritage portrayed in this exhibition reminds us that we all share a motivation to shield our well being and perfectly-getting.
The on the internet exhibition involves an education component that includes a K-12 lesson approach and a university module produced by the visitor curator. The digital gallery showcases a photograph album from the nineteen thirties established by and depicting viewing nurses from the Henry Road Settlement social assistance company, at operate caring for an immigrant neighborhood in the Bronx. This collection of photographs is also offered in its entirety in NLM Digital Collections.
The Henry Road Browsing Nurse Support brought efficient well being treatment to immigrants in their homes and their communities
Greenwich Mothers’ Club of the Henry Road Settlement, Reduce East Facet, New York Metropolis, ca. 1932
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Health Aide Dorthy Press visits a migrant relatives in migrant workers’ camp outside Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for General public Health Support Earth, 1966
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Migrant personnel and their families, who live on the move, encounter numerous road blocks to acquiring treatment. In 1985, nurses and medical professionals dedicated to improving upon well being treatment for migrant farmers shaped the grassroots-based Migrant Clinicians Network.
Companions for Health: Compañeros En La Salud!, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin, Texas, late 20th century
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The Union Health Center was opened in 1913 by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to provide its typically Jewish and Italian immigrant membership. Like Henry Road, the UHC considered that workers’ legal rights included a correct to healthcare treatment and harmless performing ailments. It is still in procedure right now
Triennial Report: 1947–1949, Union Health Center, New York, ca. 1950
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