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Economic evaluation of an intensive home visiting programme for vulnerable families: a cost-effectiveness analysis of a public health intervention
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Background: Recent reviews have shown that home visiting programmes that address parenting have the potential to improve long term health and social outcomes for children. However there are few studies exploring the cost-effectiveness of such interventions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of an intensive home visiting programme directed at vulnerable families during the antenatal and postnatal periods. Methods: The design was an economic evaluation alongside...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Nuffield Foundation
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Department of Health
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Public Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 423-433
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-3850
- ISSN:
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1741-3842
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- English
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- ora:4850
- Deposit date:
- 2011-01-27
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- Copyright holder:
- E McIntosh et al
- Copyright date:
- 2009
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- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: McIntosh, E. et al. (2009). 'Economic evaluation of an intensive home visiting programme for vulnerable families: a cost-effectiveness analysis of a public health intervention', Journal of Public Health 31(3), 423-433. [Available at http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/].
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