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Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and statistician regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Her work organizing care for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, and her subsequent statistical analysis of hospital mortality, using original data visualizations to argue for sanitary reform, made her an early and influential figure in both professional nursing and public health statistics. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Her statistical analysis of Crimean War hospital mortality, including her polar area diagrams, is credited as an early and influential contribution to public health statistics and epidemiological method.
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