title: The serious import of humour in health visiting.
abstract: Using a typical example this paper illustrates how health visitors use humour in child health clinics to introduce subjects on which health visitor and client may have different views.
mesh_terms: D002662:Child Health Services; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic