All for one, and one for all: Health visitors should stick to working with individuals if they really want to improve public health
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Health visiting has aligned itself with public health, although health visiting is more about primary health care than about public health. Health visitors have an understanding about factors contributing to people's health, with their work addressing fundamental public health issues, such as child protection and safety, postnatal depression and breast-feeding rates. However it is argued that the foundation of health visiting is a working relationship with individuals, developed over years.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1998
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National Health Service fosters low standards
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A complete contrast in nursing standards and morale is evident between the health service provision in the UK and New Zealand. UK nursing standards are often much lower than those in New Zealand, with lower pay structures equating to a lowering of patient care. Denationalizing the National Health Service would allow the injection of much needed private investment, which would improve wages, increase morale, improve education and medical practice and lead to a better service for patients.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1999
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Inadmissible evidence?
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Some healthcare services provided by nurses in the U.K. have been attacked by an anti-rationing group as poor uses of valuable resources. Professor Colin Roberts and others believe that services such as health promotion, health visiting and alternative therapies are untested and do not fit the criteria of testability. Such services, they say, need to be substantially restructured in order to become more valuable resources.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1996
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