"Alert to the necessities of the emergency": U.S. Nursing during the 1918 influenza pandemic

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Keeling, Arlene W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NURSE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED CROSS; RESPIRATORY NURSING; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY WORKER; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EPIDEMIC; HISTORY; INFLUENZA; MANPOWER; MILITARY NURSING;

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MILITARY NURSING; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING; RED CROSS; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 77954670789     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00333549101250s313     Document Type: Review

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