The health impact of changing to geographical working

There is little published evidence to inform the debate about whether health visiting services should be attached to general medical practices or organised geographically. Describes a health impact assessment of changing to a geographical service in Doncaster. A multidisciplinary group gathered evid...

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Published in:Community practitioner : the journal of the Community Practitioners' & Health Visitors' Association 2004-10, Vol.77 (10), p.376-380
Main Authors: Carlisle, Robin, Morris, Roz, Whittle, Sue, Hargreaves, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community health
General practice
Geographic aspects
Health visiting
Organization
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Summary:There is little published evidence to inform the debate about whether health visiting services should be attached to general medical practices or organised geographically. Describes a health impact assessment of changing to a geographical service in Doncaster. A multidisciplinary group gathered evidence of potential positive and negative health impacts, discussed the evidence at a wider stakeholder event and then performed a weighting exercise to score impacts six months after the change. The overall conclusion was that going geographical had a positive health impact. (Original abstract - amended)
ISSN:1462-2815