Networks; Enhancing the global contribution of health visiting and public health nursing to child and family public health

摘要

Reports by UNICEF (2007, 2011) which demonstrate the challenges to child health in different parts of the world, as well as improvements that are being achieved, reinforce the importance of the focus within the Millennium Development Goals (United Nations, 2011) on the health of children. Increasingly, research evidence from disparate fields including: genetics, brain physiology, psychology, education and public health nursing on child public health is being brought together in ways that make such evidence accessible to practitioners, families and policy makers. For example, in the UK, an Evidence Pack to support work with families in the early years has been produced which distils the research evidence in the key areas of: children's health; good maternal mental health; quality of parenting and parent-child relationships; learning activities and high quality early education (Department for Education/Department of Health, 2011).