The Search for Health Needs: Research for Health Visiting Practice

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"The search for health needs" was first identified in the 1970s as a key principle that informs and underpins the practice of health visiting. This book draws together pertinent research in this area, and presents the practical implications. The aim is to further good practice from an informed and evidence based perspective.

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'I found myself wanting to cheer as I read the first chapter of this book, which states: 'The search for health needs has been a basic principle of health visiting for many years...This timely and relevant book is essential reading for members of trusts and primary care groups to remind them that all families with young children have health needs and that health visiting cannot be confined to a narrow medical model.' - June Thompson, Health Service Journal 'This is a particularly well timed volume...I will recommend it very highly to my own colleagues involved in the field of community nursing.' - Jean McIntosh, Professor of Community Nursing Research, Glasgow Caledonian University

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JANE V. APPLETON is Principal Lecturer in Nursing in the Department of Nursing and Paramedic Sciences, University of Hertfordshire. SARAH COWLEY is Professor of Community Nursing in the Florence Nightingale Division of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London.