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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Health Promotion
  • Sociology of Health

Background:

  • Health visitors face pressure to shift from health promotion to clinical care.
  • There's a need for theoretical frameworks to guide health promotion interventions.
  • Rising health inequalities and disadvantaged groups in the UK necessitate a focus on public health.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how health visitors assess needs when clinical intervention is not required.
  • To develop a theoretical framework for understanding health as a process of resource accumulation.
  • To analyze lay perspectives on health maintenance and resource development.

Main Methods:

  • Revisiting a grounded theory study on health visitors' practices.
  • Integrating salutogenesis and social capital theories.
  • Analyzing semi-structured interviews with carers from 50 families using the developed framework.

Main Results:

  • Health is best understood as a process of accumulating and using 'resources for health'.
  • Developing capacity is more crucial than possessing specific resources for health maintenance.
  • Intergenerational and neighborhood cultural patterns influence social cohesion and health.

Conclusions:

  • A health process model focusing on resource development is valuable for public health.
  • Understanding health-creating resources can inform practice approaches for disadvantaged groups.
  • This framework supports health visitors in addressing public health needs and inequalities.

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