Workforce of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, 1968-1972

Time: 12:00pm

Location: Claire Fagin Hall, Room 435, Floor 4

There are currently more than 1000 community, migrant and homeless health centers in the United States, also known as Federally-Qualified Health Centers. This talk will explore how the United States provides healthcare to its most economically marginalized by telling the story of one of the first federally funded health centers in the United States, the Tufts-Delta Health Center in Bolivar County, Mississippi.

I will discuss the types of workers employed to deliver comprehensive health care at the Center. The Center is used as an historical case study of the utilization of professionals, paraprofessionals, and lay people, including nurses, to provide healthcare to underserved populations. I argue that innovative and experimental uses of manpower have been embraced by health centers since they emerged in the US during the 1960s. Also of significance is the international exchange of ideas and practices between programs directed at providing health services to underserved communities in the US and internationally.

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