title: Protecting children: intuition and awareness in the work of health visitors.
abstract: Protecting children: intuition and awareness in the work of health visitors This paper is based upon an ethnographic study of a group of health visitors engaged in child protection work. The purpose of this paper is to explore the meanings individual health visitors attach to events concerned with identifying children who may be at risk of harm from child abuse, and also the idiosyncratic nature of health visiting in this complex but everyday social situation. The paper focuses on understanding the importance of a particular form of knowledge which the health visitors referred to as 'intuitive awareness'.
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Luker
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019545:Intuition; D007587:Job Description; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires