Health visitor, Val Rose, won a Florence Nightingale memorial fund scholarship to travel to the Navajo Indian reservation in north America. The health problems of the Navajo are similar to those affecting the traveller population on her own caseload, forced by changing circumstances and legislation to settle on local authority sites in England. Here she describes some of the health problems arising from the settlement of nomadic people.
健康访视员瓦尔·罗斯获得了弗洛伦斯·南丁格尔纪念基金奖学金,前往北美的纳瓦霍印第安人保留地。纳瓦霍人的健康问题与她自己负责的流动人口所面临的问题相似,这些流动人口由于环境变化和立法的原因,被迫在英格兰的地方当局所在地定居。在此,她描述了游牧民族定居所引发的一些健康问题。