Essential Midwifery Practice - Public Health
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Essential Midwifery Practice: Public Health 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 is Consultant Midwife in Public Health at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Principal Midwifery Lecturer at University of Central Lancashire.
Sheena Byrom is a Consultant Midwife in Public Health at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
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Chapter 1: The Midwifery Public Health Agenda – Setting the Scene.
Chapter 2: Health and Inequality- What can midwives do?.
Chapter 3: Smoking in Pregnancy- A growing Public Health Problem.
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 Health Issue.
Chapter 8: Maternal Mental Health- Working in Partnership.
Chapter 9: Supporting Breastfeeding- Midwives Facilitating A Community Model.
Chapter 10: Normal birth and Birth Centre Care- A Public Health Catalyst for Maternal and Societal Well-being
