The Promise of Primary Prevention Home Visiting Programs

@article{Russell2007ThePO,
  title={The Promise of Primary Prevention Home Visiting Programs},
  author={Beth S. Russell and Preston A. Britner and Jennifer L Woolard},
  journal={Journal of Prevention \& Intervention in the Community},
  year={2007},
  volume={34},
  pages={129 - 147}
}
SUMMARY Home visitation (HV) is a promising service delivery model, despite a history of mixed documented results. Compiling results on the promising family and child development outcomes in the HV literature has utility for current programs and those under development. We review traditional outcomes (e.g., child maltreatment prevention) from the literature on HV, but we also present nontraditional outcomes (e.g., community connection) that may be relevant for future evaluations. Programs that… 
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Home visiting programs can empower vulnerable families to better cope with daily life demands and their family and are consistent with the growing body of international literature on the achievements of HV.
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It is suggested that programs that invest in compensation and extensive training for home visitors are better able to serve and retain beneficiaries, and they support a move toward establishing a professional workforce of home visitors to support vulnerable children and families in South Africa.
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Paraprofessional home visitors can be successful in improving the child-rearing environments and parenting attitudes for infants at risk, perhaps offering a less costly option to professional home visitors.
[The characteristics, effectiveness and challenges of home visiting in early intervention programmes].
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The authors discuss the need for developing and evaluating other variants (i.e. including community agents), considering their cost/effectiveness ratio for treating early childhood problems, needs and characteristics in Latin-America.
The role of the home visit in the comprehensive health care of children and adolescents
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The home visit’s evidences as a practice of promoting comprehensive health care for children and adolescents is reviewed through on-line research and key words were “Home Visit”,“Home Care Services’,” “ home Nursing“, “Comprehensive Health Care” and their equivalents in Portuguese.
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The pattern of inter-item and item-to-subscale correlations as well as an exploratory factor analysis and sensitivity to change analysis support the nine-factor model of the HFPI.
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