Overcoming health inequalities by using the Bug Busting 'whole-school approach' to eradicate head lice

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1955-1965

  Ibarra, Joanna ^a   Fry, Frances ^b   Clarice, Wickenden ^a   Olsen, Alice ^c   Vander Stichele, Robert H ^d   Lapeere, Hilde ^e   Maryan, Jenner ^f   Franks, Andrea ^g   Smith, Jane L ^b  

^a Manor Gardens Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b Community Hygiene Concern ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c University of Ghent ^*  (Denmark)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f Lache Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^g NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bug Busting; Head lice; Health inequalities; Nurses; Nursing; Whole school approach

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BELGIUM; CHILD; DENMARK; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARENT; PEDICULOSIS; PEDICULUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DENMARK; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INSECT CONTROL; LICE INFESTATIONS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PARENTS; PEDICULUS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALP DERMATOSES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34548778240     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.01795.x     Document Type: Article

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