Health Visiting : Preparation for Practice.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Prevention, public health, and health visiting -- Health visiting: preparation for practice -- References -- Chapter 1: Managing Knowledge in Health Visiting -- Introduction -- Defining health visiting practice -- What do health visitors do - and where do they do it? -- Evidence-based practice -- The current landscape of EBP -- Managing knowledge and evidence in practice -- Communities of practice -- Reflective practice -- Clients: what do they know and how do they know it? -- Social networking and the media -- The debate -- Summary -- References -- Activities -- Chapter 2: Health Visiting: Context and Public Health Practice -- Introduction -- Public health -- Human rights and public health -- The principles of health visiting -- Health inequalities -- Summary -- References -- Activities -- Chapter 3: The Community Dimension -- Introduction -- Public health and communities -- Defining 'community' -- Impact of communities on health -- The role of health visitors in working with communities -- Gaining an understanding of the health of your local community -- Building community capacity -- Using health promotion models to support community working -- Summary -- References -- Activities -- Chapter 4: Approaches to Supporting Families -- Introduction -- Models of intervention in family life -- Policies -- Evidence for interventions to support families -- Characteristics of services and programmes to support families with young children -- Early home visiting programmes -- Current home visiting programmes -- Working with families -- Challenges -- Summary -- Note -- References -- Activities -- Chapter 5: Safeguarding Children: Debates and Dilemmas for Health Visitors -- Introduction -- The key concepts -- Incidence and prevalence of child abuse.

Assessment of vulnerable children -- Working together -- Summary -- References -- Activities -- Chapter 6: Working with Diverse Communities -- Introduction -- Culture and migration -- Cultural sensitivity and competence -- Institutional discrimination and organisational cultural competence -- Understanding different cultural practices -- Maternal mental health -- Safeguarding, domestic violence, and abuse -- Communication -- Other communities -- Case studies -- Summary -- References -- Activities -- Chapter 7: Evaluating Practice -- Introduction -- Sources of evidence for practice -- Evaluation - the problem of definition -- Conceptualising evaluation -- Example: tackling childhood obesity -- Evaluation and evaluative research -- Evaluation of health care -- Structure, process, and outcome evaluation -- The care planning process -- Actual and potential problems -- Problem solving -- Additional issues in evaluating the practice of health visiting -- Summary -- References -- Activities -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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