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Abstract

The development of strategies to enable primary health care nurses, social workers, and psychologists (referred to in this article as health and social care professionals) to improve care and support for children who have become AIDS orphans living in township communities in South Africa. Method: Developing these strategies comprised four steps; 1) A scoping literature review was undertaken to establish the legislative and policy frameworks that inform the South African Government’s policy directives concerning children living in South Africa, 2) Secondary data analysis of 24 scoping interviews with primary health care nurses (n = 10), social workers (n = 8) and psychologists (n = 6), was undertaken by (SF) to identify strategies and recommendations made by these participants to improve care and support for these vulnerable children. Steps 3 and 4 were conducted using the results from the literature review and the results from this secondary data analysis, 3) The development of a conceptual framework, and 4) the development and population of the strategies. Results: The following strategies were identified, developed, and reviewed by an expert panel comprising academics and professionals from psychology, social work, and primary health care nursing. The grand strategies identified were 1) Strengthening existing legislative and policy frameworks, 2) Enhancing the resilience of professionals, 3) Developing interdisciplinary collaborations and 4) Facilitating an empowering environment for professionals. The expert panel appraised these strategies as having clarity, being comprehensive, implementable, and generalisable, in township communities in South Africa, and being significant. Conclusion: Comprehensive and implementable research-based strategies were developed which could be implemented to improve care and support for these vulnerable children

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been published in International Journal of Child Health and Human Development by NOVA Science Publishers and it's available online at: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/identifying-and-developing-strategies-to-enable-primary-health-ca
Publisher Keywords:	Strategies, steps-of-progression, AIDS orphans, townships, South Africa
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Nursing
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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