Classrooms and Clinics Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930 |
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| Author:
| Meckel, Richard A. |
| Series title: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-7041-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...
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Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers to utilize urban schools to deliver health care services to socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved children in the primary grades to improve children's health and thereby improve their academic performance.