Strengths and Limitations of

outreach work
 The strength of outreach methods

Provide more depth and

Provide services directly in a setting
interaction than many other forms

1 where the
encountered.
target group is
4 of commonly used health
promotion.

2 5
Some people report a benefit from
Users do not have to travel to or be
encountering outreach
motivated to seek a service.
interventions, even if they do not
directly interact with them.

3
The highly personalized delivery of
one- to- one outreach interventions.
 The Limitation of outreach methods

1
One of the most significant challenges in the
provision of advice and information,
particularly through outreach or detached
3 Outreach interventions are intensive and
relatively expensive compared with some
other health promotion methods and will
work, is the recruitment, training, and not be encountered by as many people as
retention of people willing to work
unsociable hours.

The target group might not present

4
Workers and volunteers to face difficult health needs that the intervention is

2 working environments, often working with

vulnerable people and sometimes under
taking work that is on the fringes of legality.
funded to address. The target group may
not want to be approached or engage in
conversations in such settings.