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The Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921 had a significant influence on children's health policies, marking a turning point in public health initiatives for mothers and infants. It set the stage for future federal involvement in maternal and child health care. It set up 3,000 child and maternal health care centers, many in rural areas.
Children at Play: An American History (2008). Del Mar, David Peterson. The American Family: From Obligation to Freedom (Palgrave Macmillan; 2012) 211 pages; the American family over four centuries. Fass, Paula. The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child (2016) excerpt
The History of early childhood care and education (ECCE) refers to the development of care and education of children between birth and eight years old throughout history. . ECCE has a global scope, and caring for and educating young children has always been an integral part of human societi
The sociology of health and illness, sociology of health and wellness, or health sociology examines the interaction between society and health. As a field of study it is interested in all aspects of life, including contemporary as well as historical influences, that impact and alter health and wellbeing.
The new money permitted higher spending on food, and also on a wide range of health-enhancing goods and services such as medical care. The major improvement in the physical environment was the quality of the housing stock, which rose faster than the population; its quality was increasingly regulated by central and local government. [ 58 ]
History of health care may refer to History of medicine; History of hospitals; History of nursing; History of surgery; History of pathology; History of pharmacy;
Capturing Nursing History: A Guide to Historical Methods in Research (2007) Schultheiss, Katrin. Bodies and souls: politics and the professionalization of nursing in France, 1880–1922 (Harvard U.P., 2001) full text online at ACLS e-books; Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing (2004), 354 pp; from ancient times to the present
States play a variety of roles in the health care system including purchasers of health care and regulators of providers and health plans, [169] which give them multiple opportunities to try to improve how it functions. While states are actively working to improve the system in a variety of ways, there remains room for them to do more.