Reexamining preventive health standards for women in a new century: successful screening strategies of one community-based health center.
In caring for women, health care professionals are challenged to provide adequate preventive health counseling and disease screening services. Recent studies have illustrated that providers often do not take the time to counsel, even though they believe such a service is worthy and necessary. This article examines possible reasons for the lack of provider counseling and suggests successful strategies set forth by one community-based health center for women and children. Surprisingly, many solutions to this present dilemma can be found in the highly successful public health programs of the past.
Kotarski
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St. Agnes Nurses Center, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.
D003151:Community Health Centers; D019058:Community Networks; D003376:Counseling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010414:Pennsylvania; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015980:Public Health Practice; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*