Lyle Creelman

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Lyle Creelman (born August 14, 1908 in Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia , Canada , † February 27, 2007 in Vancouver , Canada) was a Canadian nurse and Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization in Geneva ( Switzerland ).

Life

Lyle Morrison Creelman initially wanted to be a doctor. With the loss of her father, this career dream was shattered and she initially worked as a tutor in British Columbia . In 1936 she received a bachelor's degree in Public Health Nursing from the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in cooperation with the University of British Columbia. With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation , she was able to complete a master’s degree at Columbia University in New York City. During the Second World War and while still a student, Lyle Creelman became director of the Metropolitan Health Department of the city of Vancouver. Several Japanese families were interned in Vancouver during World War II. After the Second World War, Lyle Creelman worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in the British zone of occupation of Germany, which was divided into individual zones by the Allied forces. She was responsible for organizing the care of the survivors of concentration camps and later also for organizing the care of the many refugees.

After returning to Canada, she worked for the Canadian Nurses Association and became the author of the Baillie-Creelman Report, which recorded the current state of health care in Canada and presented suggestions for improvement. This report was of great importance in Canada for many years. From 1949 Lyle Creelman worked as one of two advisors to the World Health Organization (WHO) on public health issues in Geneva. The Canadian Brock Chisholm had advocated Creelman's appointment to this position. Creelman stayed in Geneva for a total of 19 years, developing Public Health programs for poor countries around the world, especially in Africa. Your work at the WHO was also used in the preparation of the Alma-Ata Declaration (1978) . After returning to Canada, the World Health Organization asked her to help with a study on Material & Child Health Care Services in Southeast Asia.

Creelman spent the last years of her life with her family and died very old in February 2007 in Vancouver.

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate from the University of New Brunswick Law School (1963)
  • Canada Centennial Medal (1967)
  • Honorary doctorate from the "University of British Columbia" (1992)

Publications (selection)

  • With UNRRA in Germany. In: The Canadian Nurse 43 (7, 8, 9), 1947, pages 552 f.
  • The History of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada: 50th Anniversary 1897-1947. In: Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Santée Publique , 1948, 39, 4, pp. 171 f.
  • Baillie-Creelman Report, "Report of the Study Committee on Public Health Practice in Canada," Canadian Public Health Association Toronto, June 1950.

literature

  • Susan Armstrong-Reid: Lyle Creelman. The Frontiers of Global Nursing , University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Web links

Video clip

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declaration by Alma-Ata (German) , accessed on March 28, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Creelman, Lyle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creelman, Lyle Morrison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian nurse, Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization in Geneva
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia , Canada
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2007
Place of death Vancouver , Canada