Narrowing the health gap between a deprived and an endowed community
| Autor: | D M Channing, G N Marsh |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Primary health care Health Promotion Disease Preventive care Practice Observed Nursing Poverty Areas Preventive Health Services Humans Medicine Child Poverty Aged General Environmental Science Vaginal Smears business.industry Public health General Engineering Attendance Preventive health General Medicine Middle Aged Patient Acceptance of Health Care Health promotion England Child Preschool General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Immunization business |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 296:173-176 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.296.6616.173 |
| Popis: | A 15 month campaign by a primary health care team in Stockton on Tees raised the uptake of preventive care of its patients in a severely deprived area to a level generally exceeding that of a more endowed neighbouring community. This was achieved by opportunistic attention after unrelated consultations, writing twice to each household with a list of its outstanding items necessary for preventive care, using health visitors to encourage attendance, and occasionally undertaking preventive care in patients9 homes. Extra clerical staff were needed to implement the new recording and monitoring procedures introduced. With rigorous monitoring and organisation general practitioners may improve the uptake of preventive health care by their more deprived patients. |
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