Prior to providing care to a family the population health nurse reflects on the achievements of historical nurses who influenced approaches used today to provide care. Which historical figure should the nurse attribute to the combination of political activism with health promotion and disease prevention to improve individual and societal conditions affecting health?

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1. Lillian Wald is the person most closely aligned with population health nursing and coined the term public health nurse. She accomplished many reforms to improve the health of New York and was politically active in lobbying for these improvements in addition to providing nursing care to the immigrant population served by the Henry St. Settlement. All the other nurses worked with Wald at the Henry St. Settlement but branched out to other aspects of nursing and political activism.

Prior to Providing Care to a Family the Population Health