Child health nurse perceptions of using confident body, confident child in community health: a qualitative descriptive study

Evaluation of the new 'Confident Body Confident Child' prevention resource for parents of pre-school children: a randomised controlled trial

Confident Body Confident Child (CBCC) is a new resource to assist parents in providing a positive body image and eating environment for 2-6 year-old children. The print materials, website, poster and information session were developed from research on child risk factors for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. This study evaluated the CBCC resource using a four arm RCT; A) CBCC resource ...

Health experts' perceptions about health education facilitators in the Iranian health system: A qualitative study

Background & Aim: Given the epidemiologic transition and necessity of educating to individuals, groups and organization for changing lifestyle and adherence, moreover inadequacy of current educational status, identifying health education facilitators in Iranian health system is necessary. Therefore the current study was done with the aim of explaining Facilitators of Health Education in Iranian...

Community child health training.

his leading article aims to highlight the main training issues in community child health (CCH) and, in light of work done so far, discuss provision of appropriate numbers of well trained paediatricians to meet the needs of the nation's children. Community child health is a subspe-cialty of paediatric medicine that has undergone much change in structure and service provision in recent years, and...

Research in community child health.

Community child health in crisis.

I n her personal view, Dr Mather has hit the nail on the head when she describes the world as currently viewed by many community paediatricians. On the one hand, most paediatricians who hold a post with the word ‘‘community’’ somewhere in their title or job description would talk enthusiastically about the uniquely varied, challenging, and frequently rewarding nature of their clinical work. How...