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The Role of Public Health Agencies in Addressing Child and Family Poverty: Public Health Nurses’ Perspectives

Poverty rates among child-bearing families in industrialised countries remain unacceptably high and have significant implications for population health. Both today and in the past, public health nurses have observed the impact of poverty on family health and well-being every day in their practice; y...

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Autores principales: Cohen, Benita E, McKay, Marion
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21347213
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874434601004010060
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description Poverty rates among child-bearing families in industrialised countries remain unacceptably high and have significant implications for population health. Both today and in the past, public health nurses have observed the impact of poverty on family health and well-being every day in their practice; yet, their perspectives on their role in addressing child and family poverty are currently absent from the literature. This paper presents findings of a qualitative descriptive study that explored perspectives of public health nurses in an urban Canadian setting about the impact of poverty on the well-being of children and families, and the potential roles of health organisations and public health nurses in addressing this issue. A key finding is the large gap between the role that nurses believe they can potentially play, and their current role. Barriers that public health nurses encounter when attempting to address poverty are identified, and implications of the findings for public health policy, practice, and research are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30432742011-02-23 The Role of Public Health Agencies in Addressing Child and Family Poverty: Public Health Nurses’ Perspectives Cohen, Benita E McKay, Marion Open Nurs J Article Poverty rates among child-bearing families in industrialised countries remain unacceptably high and have significant implications for population health. Both today and in the past, public health nurses have observed the impact of poverty on family health and well-being every day in their practice; yet, their perspectives on their role in addressing child and family poverty are currently absent from the literature. This paper presents findings of a qualitative descriptive study that explored perspectives of public health nurses in an urban Canadian setting about the impact of poverty on the well-being of children and families, and the potential roles of health organisations and public health nurses in addressing this issue. A key finding is the large gap between the role that nurses believe they can potentially play, and their current role. Barriers that public health nurses encounter when attempting to address poverty are identified, and implications of the findings for public health policy, practice, and research are discussed. Bentham Open 2010-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3043274/ /pubmed/21347213 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874434601004010060 Text en © Cohen and McKay; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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