Category: Timeline Stories

POLIO PIONEERS More than 1.6 million children, known as “polio pioneers,” participated in the polio vaccine trials of 1954. Dr. Jonas Salk had presented his findings for a cure to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1953, which then took a “calculated risk” by helping to make the vaccine available to groups of children across …

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THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

Soon after the turn of the 20th century, public health nurses became a very important part of the budding American healthcare system. They traveled by horse to remote locations, visiting homes and schools and workplaces to help those in need. The public health nurse was often the only link that many people …

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THE PALMOLIVE GIRL During the early 1900s, Palmolive was the world’s best-selling soap. In the name of public health (and also increasing its number of users per family), Palmolive issued posters showing children as happy and healthy users of its product. Today, we thank Palmolive for its efforts to promote the virtues of handwashing.

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PROJECT DAWN COMES TO CCBH Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided With Naloxone) offers free naloxone kits to those whose lives are affected by the nationwide opioid epidemic. CCBH hosts a weekly walk-in clinic which allows visitors to learn within 20 minutes how to properly give naloxone to an overdose victim. Learn more here from MetroHealth.org

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