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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Catherine DeLorey, DrPH, Women's Health Institute, 190 Alleghany Street, Boston, MA 02120-2822, 617-739-2923, cdelorey@earthlink.net
Women, as primary health care givers have always been health care reformers and advocates. This paper discusses the role of women in different roles and how they have attempted to reform the way health care is provided both to themselves, as women, and to the whole of society. It includes an exploration of women’s pursuit to construct an appropriate health care system, from the women’s hygiene movement of the nineteenth century, to advocates of the Sheppard-Towner Act, to the birthing movement of the mid-twentieth century and to the resurgence of the women’s health movement during the latter years of the twentieth century. Each of these movements was concerned with health services, nested in the recognition of the underlying inadequacies of the structure of the health care system. It concludes by examining the role of women advocates today in the quest to provide an appropriate health care system for the United States.
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Keywords: Health Care Reform, Women
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.