title: Mississippi public health nurses and midwives: a partnership that worked.
abstract: At the turn of the century maternal and infant mortality rates were high in this southern state. Untrained midwives conducted many of the deliveries. Initial support for locating and training midwives by public health nurses was provided by the American Red Cross and the United States Public Health Services. Later, funding from a philanthropic organization (Rockefeller International Foundation) provided a mechanism that brought Mississippi public health nurses and midwives to a partnership that endured for over a half a century, and contributed to better maternal-infant health care outcomes for that state.
authors.affiliation: Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson 39216-4505.
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Reeb
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000266:history; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008880:Midwifery / Q000266:history*; D008922:Mississippi; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000266:history*