Public Health
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
People's Institute and Free Dispensary records
The People’s Institute worked to provide social services for the urban poor while the Portland Free Dispensary was an early effort to provide health services to the underserved. They served as a model of collaboration between the city’s charitable organizations and its medical community. This collection contains a variety of reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the work of the People's Institute and Portland Free Dispensary.
Grace Phelps papers
Grace Phelps (1871-1952) was a prominent Oregonian health professional and nursing advocate who maintained a career as a practicing nurse from approximately 1900 to 1942. This collection houses the professional and public records of Grace Phelps, and includes materials relating to her time as head nurse at Base Hospitals 45 and 46 during WWI; head nurse at the Portland Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital; and Superintendent at Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children.
Portland Free Dispensary letters
This collection is a wide variety of correspondence to and from the Portland Free Dispensary in its last year (1929-30) before moving up to the medical school campus on Marquam Hill in 1931.
Public Health and Preventive Medicine departmental records
Katie Riley Public Health and Preventive Medicine Oral History Project records
The collection consists of transcripts from digitally recorded oral history interviews with Public Health and Preventive Medicine department faculty and staff conducted by Katie Riley for the oral history project.
Kenneth D. Rosenberg collection
Harry J. Sears papers
This collection contains the correspondence and publications of Dr. Harry J. Sears while on faculty at the University of Oregon Medical School.
Student Public Health Surveys collection
This collection is composed of public health surveys of towns primarily located in the Pacific Northwest conducted between 1930 and 1932 and includes information on topics such as diseases, foodstuffs, and water supply. As of 2017, all surveys from the state of Oregon have been digitized and are available online, with data transcriptions available, through the LSTA-funded "Public Health in Oregon" project of OHSU.
University of Oregon Medical School Hospitals records
The University of Oregon Medical School has operated or been affiliated with a variety of hospitals and clinics. This collections holds records of some of those institutions, including hospital registers, death books, and other assorted registration and medical care ledgers dating from 1915 to 1973.
University of Oregon Medical School nursing clerkship papers
UOMS Dept. of Nursing held clerkships during WWII, which has been defined as "Clinical clerkship: Full-time supervised learning experience in a clinical setting". Several patient studies were made by nurses. Eight of them are included here.