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Boundary crossers, communities, and health : exploring the role of rural health professionals

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posted on 2009-03-01, 00:00 authored by Sue Kilpatrick, B Cheers, M Gilles, J Taylor
Boundary crossers understand the culture and language of community and health service domains and have the trust of both. Rural health professionals living within the communities they serve are ideally placed to harness community capacity so as to influence community-level determinants of health. We analyse five case studies of rural health professionals acting as boundary crossers against indicators of capacity for communities and external agents such as health services working in partnership. A more explicit evidence base for inclusion of community health development in the jobs of rural health professionals is needed.

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Journal

Health and place

Volume

15

Issue

1

Pagination

284 - 290

Publisher

Pergamon

Location

[Kidlington, England]

ISSN

1353-8292

eISSN

1873-2054

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2008, Elsevier

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