title: Health visitors as educators.
abstract: This paper describes some models of health education as a context for considering data from a recent study of mothers' and health visitors' perspectives on good child health care. Most health visitors favoured an individualistic top-down approach aimed at changing mothers' behaviour. Mothers preferred a dialogue which started from their own priorities.
authors.affiliation: Thomas Coram Research Unit, London.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mayall
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology; D010358:Patient Participation; D010559:Personnel Management