

Midwifery Essentials: Public Health - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource


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- Provides a useful, friendly source of information
- Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
- Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
- Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
- Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
- Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
- Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
- Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication
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1 - Introduction
2 - Public health: principles and midwifery practice
3 - Becoming a mother and support for parenting
4 - Birth and health
5 - Childbearing women who are seeking asylum or homeless
6 - Substance misuse in pregnancy
7 - Age and maternity
8 - Infant feeding: a public health perspective
9 - Smoking in pregnancy
10 - Weight matters in pregnancy
11 - Emotional wellbeing and public health