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Lactation Consultant

Category - Public Health

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Who is credited with the founding of public health?

Florence Nightingale
Lillian Wald
Abraham Jacobi
Lina Rogers

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Answer: B - Lillian Wald is credited with the founding of public health. Lillian Wald opened the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, which provided health care services and social work services to children, the homeless, and the impoverished. Florence Nightingale is referred to as the “mother of nursing”; Abraham Jacobi is known as the “father of pediatrics”; and Lina Rogers was the first school nurse.

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