Home visiting: An essential building block to support families

Graham Vimpani

Abstract

This article outlines the advantages of extended home visiting for families and children at risk. This form of visiting by a nurse, welfare worker or trained volunteer which may begin in pregnancy or in the first few weeks of life, usually continues regularly and frequently over a period of many months, and in the case of participants in the Olds study, for two years after birth.

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 9(11) 130 - 130 (1998) doi:10.1071/NB98042