Main description:

This book helps midwives to learn different aspects of health promotion and conduct their professional lives with greater understanding, knowledge and skills. It is a guide to how we prepare future generations of mothers and midwives to gain improvements in the health of people and populations.

Contents:

1. Public health, midwifery and Government policy 2. Health promotion and the midwife 3. Factors affecting health promotion 4. Using health promotion models and approaches in midwifery 5. Evaluating health promotion activities 6. Attitudes, values and health behaviours 7. Information giving in health promotion 8. Health promotion in midwifery training 9. Partnership working and the midwife 10. Sexual health promotion in midwifery practice 11. Promoting breastfeeding: What works? 12. Smoking, pregnancy and the midwife 13. The challenge of mental health promotion 14. Domestic violence and health promotion: Midwives can make a difference 15. The role of complementary and alternative medicine in health promotion