Family visitors or social workers? Health visiting and public health in England and Wales 1890-1974
Welshman, J.
International history of nursing journal IHNJ 2(4): 5-22
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 1360-1105 PMID: 11619491 Document Number: 480508
This article examines health visiting from its origins in the late 19th century to the 1974 National Health Service reorganisation. It looks at the successes and failures of health visiting in England and Wales as a whole, and compares this with a case study of provision in the Midlands city of Leicester.
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