Background Tobacco smoking remains one of the few preventable factors associated with
complications in pregnancy, and has serious long‐term implications for women and babies …

Background Parent education and training programmes can improve maternal psychosocial
health, child behavioural problems, and parenting practices. This review assesses the …

The approach taken to integration of diverse data sources and analytical approaches in
mixed methods studies is a crucial feature of those studies. Models of integration in analysis …

Children's health and development outcomes follow a social gradient: the further up the
socioeconomic spectrum, the better the outcomes. Based upon a review of multiple forms of …

Objective To investigate the impact of a long-term nurse home visiting programme,
embedded within a universal child health system, on the health, development and well …

Aims To systematically evaluate published experimental studies of sustained nurse home
visiting (SNHV) programs. This review summarizes the evidence and identifies gaps in the …

Aim To synthesise and analyse the existing literature regarding parent satisfaction with
sustained home visiting care for mothers and children. Background Sustained home visiting …

OBJECTIVES: Nurse home visiting (NHV) may redress inequities in children's health and
development evident by school entry. We tested the effectiveness of an Australian NHV …

Background This literature review was commissioned to support the Health Visitor
Implementation Plan 2011-2015: A Call to Action (Department of Health 2011). That …

Context: Home‐visiting programs have been offered for more than sixty years to at‐risk
families of newborns and infants. But despite decades of experience with program delivery …