Essential Midwifery Practice
Public Health
Published on 30. April 2008
256 pages
978-0-470-69810-5 (ISBN)
Description
Essential Midwifery Practice: Public Health highlights important developments in public health over recent years and relates the implications for midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner. This practical text will appeal to clinical midwives who may be unsure about the relevance of the public health agenda to their every day practice. It highlights how public health underpins every midwife's practice by using examples and case histories. It addresses a wide range of public health issues pertinent to every midwife, including: smoking in pregnancy, breastfeeding, sexual health, substance misuse, domestic abuse, perinatal mental health and vulnerable groups, poverty and social exclusion.
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Grace Edwards | Sheena Byrom
Public Health
Book
05/2007
1st Edition
Wiley
€64.00
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Persons
Grace Edwards is Consultant Midwife in Public Health at LiverpoolWomen's Hospital and Principal Midwifery Lecturer atUniversity of Central Lancashire.
Sheena Byrom is a Consultant Midwife in Public Health at EastLancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Content
Chapter 1: The Midwifery Public Health Agenda - Setting theScene.
Chapter 2: Health and Inequality- What can midwives do?.
Chapter 3: Smoking in Pregnancy- A growing Public HealthProblem.
Chapter 4: Teenage Pregnancy- Everyone's Business.
Chapter 5: Sexual Health- A Potential Time Bomb.
Chapter 6: Substance Abuse- What is the Problem?.
Chapter 7: Domestic Abuse in Pregnancy- A Public HealthIssue.
Chapter 8: Maternal Mental Health- Working in Partnership.
Chapter 9: Supporting Breastfeeding- Midwives Facilitating ACommunity Model.
Chapter 10: Normal birth and Birth Centre Care- A Public HealthCatalyst for Maternal and Societal Well-being
