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Changes in national child health care policies and their effects on the public health nurse's work in child health care in Finland
Author(s) -
Lauri Sirkka H.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01514.x
Subject(s) - public health , health care , nursing , public health nurse , health policy , work (physics) , public health nursing , medicine , health promotion , child health , family medicine , environmental health , psychology , political science , mechanical engineering , law , engineering
The purpose of this study was to clarify the public health nurse's work and decision‐making process in child health care during the years 1976‐1986. The first study was carried out in 1976 and a subsequent one in 1986. The population of both studies consisted of public health nurses working in child health care centres. During these years many reforms were implemented in national child health care policy. According to the results of the 1986 study the public health nurses used the decision‐making process, as a whole, better than in the study of 1976. The content of the health care they provided had become more varied.