Towards better practice in primary health care settings for young people.
Health Promot J Austr
; 17(2): 139-44, 2006 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
ISSUE ADDRESSED To identify and describe elements of accessibility and other dimensions of quality of primary health care for Australian young people. METHODS:
Five sampling frames identified relevant services and programs across New South Wales (NSW) which were then selected using purposive, convenience or snowball sampling. In-depth interviews were conducted with senior staff members, tape-recorded, transcribed, entered into the qualitative software package NUD*IST and coded under seven theme headings.RESULTS:
Interviews with 77 services across five sectors in NSW identified seven principles of better practice in youth health. These were accessibility, evidence-based practice, youth participation, collaboration, professional development, sustainability and evaluation. Accessibility was the principle most frequently addressed and evaluation was the least frequently addressed. Many seemingly effective programs and services had been minimally evaluated for impact or outcome related to young people's access or health.CONCLUSIONS:
Principles of better practice in promoting or delivering adolescent health care have strong face validity across a range of sectors and service types in a heterogeneous primary health care system. These principles are applied to varying degrees in a vast array of health and health promotion programs. Despite this, there is a clear need for impact and outcome evaluation among the majority of programs.
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Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Serviços de Saúde do Adolescente
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adolescent
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Promot J Austr
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Article