Implementation of new Healthy Conversation Skills to support lifestyle changes - what helps and what hinders? Experiences of Sure Start Children's Centre staff

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 430-437

  Tinati, Tannaze ^a,b   Lawrence, Wendy ^a   Ntani, Georgia ^a   Black, Christina ^a,b   Cradock, Sue ^b   Jarman, Megan ^a,b   Pease, Anna ^a,b   Begum, Rufia ^a,b   Inskip, Hazel ^a   Cooper, Cyrus ^a   Baird, Janis ^a   Barker, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers; Communication; Epidemiology; Sure Start; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFESTYLE; PARENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; ENGLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; PARENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84862690992     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2012.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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