Blank, L., Holding, E., Crowder, M. et al. (3 more authors) (2019) Taking preventative health messages into the wider caring professions: the views of housing staff and tenants. Journal of Public Health, 41 (4). pp. 674-680. ISSN 1741-3842
Abstract
Background
In order to harness the potential impact of the wider public health workforce, innovative services are providing opportunities for social housing staff to extend their public health role. This study explored the views of housing professionals and social housing residents on the delivery of preventative health messages by housing staff in the context of the evaluation of the roll-out of a new service.
Methods
We conducted semi structured interviews with 21 neighbourhood housing officers, 4 managers and 30 social housing tenants to understand their views on the widening role and the potential impact on the preventative healthcare messages being delivered.
Results
Neighbourhood officers were willing to discuss existing health conditions with tenants; but they often did not feel comfortable discussing their lifestyle choices. Most tenants also reported that they would feel discussions around lifestyle behaviours to be intrusive and outside the remit of housing staff.
Conclusions
Resistance to discussions of lifestyle topics during home visits was found among both housing staff and tenants. Appropriate staff training and the development of strong and trusting relationships between officers and tenants is needed, if similar programmes to extend the role of housing staff are to succeed in terms of health impact.
Metadata
Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Public Health. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Housing; life style; neighborhood |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 31 Oct 2018 11:54 |
Last Modified: | 08 May 2024 13:19 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/pubmed/fdy175 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137828 |