Health visitors and 'disadvantaged' parent-clients: Designing realist research

Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 151-170

  Hart, Angie ^a   New, Caroline ^b   Freeman, Marnie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899293034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203624289     Document Type: Chapter

References (46)

1. Acheson, D. (1998) Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report, London: Department of Health.
2. Aranda, S.K. and Street, A. F (1999) 'Being authentic and being a chameleon: nurse/patient interaction revisited', Nursing Enquiry 6, 2: 75-82.
3. Archer, M. (1995) Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach, London: Routledge.
4. Bartley, M., Blane, D. and Davey Smith, G. (eds) (1998) The Sociology of Health Inequalities, Oxford: Blackwell.
5. Benzeval, M., Judge, H. and Whitehead, M. (eds) (1995) Tackling Inequalities in Health: An Agenda for Action, London: King's Fund.
6. Bhaskar, R. (1989) The Possibility of Naturalism, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester.
7. Blaxter, M. (1990) Health and Lifestyles, London: Routledge.
8. Bloor, M. and Macintosh, J. (1990) 'Surveillance and concealment: a comparison of techniques of client resistance in therapeutic communities and health visiting', in S. Cunningham-Burley and N. McKeganey (eds) Readings in Medical Sociology London: Routledge.
9. Botes, S. (1998) 'The CPHVA view of health visiting and the new NHS', Community Practitioner 71, 6: 220-222.
10. Bowler, I. (1993) '"They're not the same as us": midwives' stereotypes of South Asian descent patients', Sociology of Health and Illness 15, 157-178.
11. Chase Stovall, K. and Dozier, M. (1998) 'Infants in foster care: an attachment theory persepective', Adoption Quarterly 2, 1: 55-88.
12. Clark, J., Potter, D. and McKinlay, J. (1991) 'Bringing social structure back into clinical decision making', Social Science and Medicine 32, 853-866.
13. Cowley, C. (1999) 'From population to people: public health in practice', Community Practitioner 72, 4: 88-90.
14. Cunningham, P. and Hengeller, S. (1999) 'Engaging multiproblem families in treatment: lessons learned through the development of multisystemic therapy', Family Process 38, 3: 265-286.
15. Department of Health and Social Security (1980) Inequalities in Health: Report of a Working Group, London: HMSO.
16. Danermark, B., Ekstrom, M., Jakobsen, L. and Karlsson, J.C. (2002) Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences, London: Routledge.
17. Doyal, K. and Gough, I. (1991) A Theory of Human Need, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
18. Edwards, J. (1995) '"Parenting skills": views of community health and social service providers about the needs of their clients', Journal of Social Policy 24, 2: 237-259.
19. Edwards, J. (1998) 'Screening out men: or "Has mum changed her washing powder recently?"' in J. Popay, J. Hearn and J. Edwards (eds) Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare, London: Routledge.
20. Elkan, R., Blair, M. and Robinson, J. (2000) 'The effectiveness of domiciliary health visiting: a systematic review of international studies and a selective review of the British literature', Health Technology Assessment 4, 13.
21. Hart, A. and Freeman, M. (2004) 'Sometimes we make people worse not better: the effect of the professional ego on inequalities in health care provision', Journal of Advanced Nursing.
22. Hart, A., Lockey, R., Henwood, F., Pankhurst, F., Hall, V. and Sommerville, F. (2001) Addressing Inequalities in Health: New Directions in Midwifery Education and Practice, London: English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.
23. House, R. (2000) Limits to Professionalised Therapy: Critical Deconstructions, London: Free Association Books.
24. Illich, I. (1977) Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health, London: Penguin.
25. Kendall, S. (1993) 'Do health visitors promote client participation? An analysis of the health visitor/client interaction', Journal of Clinical Nursing 2, 103-109.
26. Layder, D. (1998) Sociological Practice: Linking Theory and Social Research, London: Sage.
27. Lupton, D. (1994) Medicine as Culture, London: Sage.
28. Macintosh, J. (1986) A Consumer Perspective on the Health Visiting Service, University of Glasgow: Social Paediatric and Obstetric Research Unit.
29. Menzies-Lyth, I. (1960) The Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety: Report to the Centre for Applied Social Research, London: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
30. Ministry of Health (1956) An Inquiry into Health Visiting (Jamieson Report), London: HMSO.
31. Oakley, A. (1992) Social Support and Motherhood, Oxford: Blackwell.
32. Pawson, R. and Tilley, N. (1997) Realistic Evaluation, London: Sage.
33. Popay, J., Hearn, J. and Edwards, J. (1998b) Men, Gender Divisions and Welfare, London: Routledge.
34. Popay, J., Williams, G., Thomas, C. and Gatrell, A. (1998a) Theorising inequalities in health: the place of lay knowledge', in M. Bartley, D. Blane and G. Davey Smith (eds) The Sociology of Health Inequalities, Oxford: Blackwell.
35. Roberts, C. (1996) 'The proof of the pudding', Health Services Journal 106, 27.
36. Sayer, A. (1992) Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach, London: Routledge.
37. Sayer, A. (2001) Personal communication.
38. Siegler, M. and Osmond, H. (1974) Models of Madness, Models of Medicine, New York: Macmillan.
39. Stubbs, P. (1993) 'Ethnically sensitive or anti-racist? Models of health research and service delivery' in W.I.U. Ahmed (ed.) 'Race' and Health in Contemporary Britain, Buckingham: Open University Press.
40. Svanberg, P. (1998) 'Attachment, resilience and prevention', Journal of Mental Health 7, 6: 543-578.
41. Tajfel, H. (1981) Human Groups and Social Categories, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
42. Titmuss, R. (1968) Commitment to Welfare, London: Allen Unwin.
43. Tudor-Hart, J. (1971) 'The inverse care law', Lancet 1, 405-412.
44. Turner, T. (1998/9) 'The family way', Community Practitioner 71, 12: 38-40.
45. Wilkinson, R. (1996) Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality, London: Routledge.
46. Wilkinson, R. (1997) 'Health inequalities relative to absolute material standards', British Medical Journal 13, 591-595.