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For the Street Scene: Mobile Medical Care?
Author(s) -
Guthrie Andrew D.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1974.tb00708.x
Subject(s) - outreach , mile , unit (ring theory) , evening , intervention (counseling) , action (physics) , happening , crisis intervention , nursing , public relations , sociology , psychology , medicine , political science , social psychology , history , physics , mathematics education , quantum mechanics , astronomy , performance art , law , art history
This is a report of a mobile medical care unit housed in a Winnebago camper model that goes out into the community, fully staffed and equipped for action. The 12 to 15 mile trip that the van makes each evening permits the staff an opportunity to get to where the young people are; they get close to the young people, offer rides, and find out “what's happening.” The use of the street worker, the nurse, the volunteer, and the philosophy of a patient advocacy system are thoroughly detailed. The description of practical aspects of the outreach components of such a clinic facility offers much to all who are in crisis intervention as well as community‐reach project endeavors.