Health Visiting

A fully updated edition of a seminal text for students and practitioners in community and health visiting. * Essential reading for student health visitors, nurses on community placements, as well as practitioners working with and in the community to support their ongoing professional development. * Fully updated throughout, with new content on practice and policy developments, including on public health in communities, and the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. * Includes an additional chapter on working in a multi-cultural society with a discussion on some of the challenges and issues faced by health visitors.

Karen A. Luker is QNI Professor of Community Nursing in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester, UK. Gretl A. McHugh is Professor of Applied Health Research in the School of Healthcare, The University of Leeds, UK. Rosamund M. Bryar is Professor Emeritus Community and Primary Care Nursing, School of Health Sciences, City University London, UK.

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