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| Title |
What is the 'problem' that outreach work seeks to address and how might it be tackled? Seeking theory in a primary health prevention programme
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, December 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-11-350 |
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| Authors |
Mhairi Mackenzie, Fiona Turner, Stephen Platt, Maggie Reid, Yingying Wang, Julia Clark, Sanjeev Sridharan, Catherine A O'Donnell |
| Abstract |
Preventive approaches to health are disproportionately accessed by the more affluent and recent health improvement policy advocates the use of targeted preventive primary care to reduce risk factors in poorer individuals and communities. Outreach has become part of the health service response. Outreach has a long history of engaging those who do not otherwise access services. It has, however, been described as eclectic in its purpose, clientele and mode of practice; its effectiveness is unproven.Using a primary prevention programme in the UK as a case, this paper addresses two research questions: what are the perceived problems of non-engagement that outreach aims to address; and, what specific mechanisms of outreach are hypothesised to tackle these. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 20% |
| Scientists | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 108 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 106 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 19 | 18% |
| Unknown | 28 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 23 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 14% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 17 | 16% |
| Unknown | 31 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2013.
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#12,659,757
of 22,660,862 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,141
of 7,573 outputs
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#141,546
of 243,693 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#28
of 69 outputs
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