Public health practitioners’ views of the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ initiative and standards for its evaluation | Zendy

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Public health practitioners’ views of the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ initiative and standards for its evaluation

Author(s) -

Anna Chisholm,

P Ang-Chen,

Sarah Peters,

Jo Hart,

Jane Beenstock

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdy094

Subject(s) - thematic analysis , public health , medical education , government (linguistics) , qualitative research , underpinning , standardization , public relations , health care , population health , medicine , psychology , nursing , sociology , political science , engineering , social science , linguistics , philosophy , civil engineering , law

National Health Service England encourages staff to use everyday interactions with patients to discuss healthy lifestyle changes as part of the 'Making Every Contact Count' (MECC) approach. Although healthcare, government and public health organisations are now expected to adopt this approach, evidence is lacking about how MECC is currently implemented in practice. This study explored the views and experiences of those involved in designing, delivering and evaluating MECC.

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