Lehr T K
Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives, Rochester General Hospital, NY 14621, USA.
J Public Health Policy. 1996;17(1):71-9.
An examination of the papers that document the creation and development of America's earliest health care and social institutions reveals concerns common to both the mid-nineteenth and the late twentieth centuries. Such sources give invaluable insight into how community leaders reacted to tensions and inequalities that still exist. They explain how some organizations worked to extend the benefits of democracy to the less fortunate. The documents that contain these stories need to be preserved. A group of health care-related archival organizations in Rochester, New York has united to make their documents available to researchers.
对记录美国最早的医疗保健和社会机构的创建与发展的文件进行考察后发现，19世纪中叶和20世纪末存在一些共同的问题。这些资料为了解社区领袖如何应对至今仍然存在的紧张局势和不平等现象提供了宝贵的见解。它们解释了一些组织是如何努力将民主的益处扩展到较不幸的人群的。包含这些故事的文件需要得到保存。纽约罗切斯特的一群与医疗保健相关的档案组织联合起来，将其文件提供给研究人员。
