7 results match your criteria: "Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King's College London[Affiliation]"
Parental health information seeking and re-exploration of the 'digital divide'.
Prim Health Care Res Dev
April 2014
1 Lecturer, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King's College London, London, UK.
Aim: To describe patterns of 'online' and 'offline' health information seeking in families with children under five years of age and living in five socially, economically and culturally disparate local authority (LA) wards in one inner-city area.
Background: Earlier work analysed data from the five LA wards merged as one data set. A 'digital divide' in health information seeking was identified between parents who actively sought information from both internet websites and from 14 other health information sources (online health information seekers), and those who acquired information from a more limited range of sources excluding the internet.
Demand-side financing measures to increase maternal health service utilisation and improve health outcomes: a systematic review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries.
JBI Libr Syst Rev
January 2012
1.Department of Health Policy and Management, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King's College London, UK 2.Department of Midwifery and Women's Health, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery King's College London, UK 3Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, Leeds Institute for Health Sciences, University of Leeds, UK 4.Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.
Little is known about how parents explain to their children their risk of inheriting a gene that may cause disease in the child or in the child's future progeny. This study explored how genetic risk information is shared between family members and the factors affecting it, to ascertain the implications for children, young people and their parents to inform future service development and provision. A volunteer group of parents, children (8-11 years) and young people (12+ years) in families affected by or at risk of one of six inherited genetic conditions was interviewed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe drive toward evidence-based healthcare aims to promote effectiveness and thereby improve quality. The challenge for cancer nursing is to continually evaluate what it does, retaining effective interventions and working to develop new ones and refine those interventions that require improvement, thereby enhancing both practice and patient outcomes. The aim of the project was to assimilate an evidence base to support the development, delivery, and evaluation of cancer nursing services in the United Kingdom.
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