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The fourth edition of Health Promotion in Midwifery explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery. It clearly outlines and discusses the midwife's role in health promotion, linking theory and practice.
List of contents
1. Global Health and Midwifery
2. Public Health Policy & Midwifery
3. Health Promotion: The core role of the Midwife.
4. Factors affecting health promotion: a gendered issue.
5. Health Promotion and Clients from Racially Diverse Communities
6. Health Promotion considerations for clients from the LGBTQ+ community: embarking on starting a family
7. Health Promotion Models and Approaches .
8. Evaluating Health Promotion, What Midwives need to consider.
9. Health, Lifestyle and changing behaviours
10. Health Promotion, Conversations, Information and "Fake News"
11. Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy
12. Breastfeeding -A Multifaceted Perspective on Health Promotion
13. Perinatal Mental Health promotion in Midwifery
14. Maternal Suicide: A Key Public Health Issue for Midwifery Practice
15. Midwives' self-care and resilience
16. Sexual health promotion in midwifery practice
17. Violence against Women and Girls
18. Vaccinations and Pregnancy
19. The displaced/migrant client
About the author
Jan Bowden is an experienced lecturer in midwifery at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London, and an external examiner. She is passionate about the role of the midwife in public health and health promotion, contraception, and sexual health, including abortion, FGM, and women's health. She is currently involved in a project to develop the academic literacy skills of midwifery students.
Sam Bassett is the head of the Department of Education and lead midwife for education at King's College London. As an experienced midwife, her specialist areas of interest are maternal medical complexities, midwifery emergencies, and maternal high-dependency care. Clinical midwifery practice remains central to Sam's work, and she continues to contribute nationally to the development of key guidelines/publications, instruct on courses such as NLS, and represent midwifery on courses such as mMOET.
Summary
The fourth edition of Health Promotion in Midwifery explores the principles of health promotion within the practical context of midwifery. It clearly outlines and discusses the midwife’s role in health promotion, linking theory and practice.
