Turbulent future for school nursing and health visiting.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to K Billingham.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
This article, the first in a three-part series on public health, promotes the case for community nurses to grasp the opportunities a public health approach to care offers to populations and communities. The importance of organisation and evaluation are emphasised as is the need for support from colleagues which, argue the authors, can only be obtained if the benefits of this approach are made clear. The second article in the series will appear next week.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
There can be few health visitors who have not wondered in recent months what all this talk about 'public health' means for them. Kate Billingham outlines the approaches to public health for nurses in primary care, and suggests how they may evolve in the future.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Health visitors' interactions with clients from a small-scale study are used as a basis for analysing how professionals can influence and improve health when the causes of ill health lie outside their control. The author argues that individual solution will always be partial and suggests drawing on community development and group work skills as a way forward.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.