Reassurance or judgement? Parents' views on the delivery of child health surveillance programmes

Family Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 507-512

  Roche, Brenda ^a   Cowley, Sarah ^b   Salt, Niki ^a   Scammell, Amy ^a   Malone, Mary ^b   Savile, Philippa ^a   Aikens, Daphine ^a   Fitzpatrick, Susan ^a  

^a Bolingbroke Hospital London   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child development; Child health services; Health promotion; Parent; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARENTING; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS;

EID: 26444511150     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmi046     Document Type: Article

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