Effectiveness of a Household Environmental Health Intervention Delivered by Rural Public Health Nurses

Public health nurses in rural/frontier one-nurse offices.

INTRODUCTION Public health nursing is the foundation of the United States' (US) public health system, particularly in rural and remote areas. Recent increasing interest in public health in the USA has highlighted that there is limited information available about public health nursing in the most isolated areas, particularly in the US. The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the charact...

Nurses for Public Health Work

Since 1920 an international course of training in Public Health Nursing, organised by the Red Cross Societies, has been held at Bedford College for Women in order to meet the increasing demand in all countries for nurses qualified for service in the Public Health field. This year the students have more than maintained the high standard set by former groups, and all sixteen students received the...

Outcomes of an effectiveness trial of cognitive-behavioural intervention by mental health nurses in schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the medium-term durability of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) in a community sample of people with schizophrenia. AIMS To investigate whether brief CBT produces clinically important outcomes in relation to recovery, symptom burden and readmission to hospital in people with schizophrenia at 1-year follow-up. METHOD Participants (336 of 422 randomised at b...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority