Revista de Enfermagem Comunitária e de Saúde Pública

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A Short Note on Past and Future of Public Health Nursing

Maria Calia Araajo

The converting socioeconomic and demographic scenario in Europe and the growing attention on growing excessive quality, regionally on hand fitness care offerings have prompted essential fitness carrier reforms at some point of the WHO European Region. Public fitness nurses had been lively with inside the Region for the reason that overdue nineteenth century. They had been the various first fitness specialists to lessen inequalities in fitness fame and in get right of entry to simple fitness offerings with inside the groups they served. Public fitness nursing has been growing along the general public fitness motion in Europe beneath neath the auspices of country wide, nearby or neighbourhood authority’s public fitness departments. The variety and scope of this improvement varies substantially among Member States, thanks to the ancient improvement of nursing and midwifery and the associated function of flashers. Despite those differences, the motives for the improvement of the general public fitness nursing function on the stop of the nineteenth century had been crushing poverty, inequity, loss of simple fitness offerings, environmental
pollutants and infectious diseases.