Health education in the National Health Service: the differing perceptions of community physicians and health education officers.
Community physicians and health education officers (HEOs) are the two key health professionals with a particular responsibility for the delivery of health education services to the community. For this reason it is important that they achieve some measure of consensus in terms of the aims, objectives and methods employed by such a service. The results of a study based on a questionnaire and detailed interviews with both groups, indicate that this consensus is rarely achieved. It shows that community physicians and HEOs have important differences of opinion in a number of key areas, including both the level of intervention and methods employed in health education.
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom