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What makes general practitioners do child health surveillance?
M Glickman1, S Gillam, G Boyle
1Wolfson Child Health Monitoring Unit, Institute of Child Health, London.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|January 1, 1994
Summary
General practitioner (GP) characteristics like paediatric training and gender significantly influence child health surveillance (CHS) provision. Further local training is in demand to increase GP involvement in CHS.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- General Practice
- Child Health Surveillance
Background:
- Child health surveillance (CHS) is crucial for monitoring child development and well-being.
- Understanding factors influencing general practitioner (GP) engagement in CHS is essential for optimizing service delivery.
Purpose of the Study:
- To determine how GP characteristics, views, and experiences affect their likelihood of providing CHS.
- To identify the perceived training needs of GPs regarding CHS.
Main Methods:
- Combined administrative data from family health services with postal questionnaire responses.
- Surveyed all GPs in three district health authorities in the North West Thames region.
Main Results:
- Significant variations in CHS provision existed between different districts.
- GPs with paediatric training were three times more likely to perform CHS; women GPs were twice as likely as men.
- Personal views of GPs were significantly associated with CHS provision, not the fee.
Conclusions:
- The proportion of GPs undertaking CHS is expected to rise with increasing numbers of women and vocationally trained doctors.
- There is a substantial demand for convenient, continuing, and local training for GPs involved or interested in CHS.
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