Contexts of midwifery practice / Helen Muscat, Heather Passmore, Sam Chenery-Morris.
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TextSeries: Transforming midwifery practicePublisher: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE Publications : Learning Matters, 2017Description: 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9781473917774 (ebook) :
- RG964.G7 M87 2017
- 2015 G-405
- WQ 160
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The principles of health promotion and salutogenesis -- Weight management in pregnancy -- Age and childbearing -- Women who have communication challenges -- Sexual and reproductive health in childbearing -- Perinatal mental health -- Domestic abuse -- Substance misuse and pregnancy -- Promoting parenting in midwifery.
In order to become skilled and competent practitioners, student midwives need to understand the complex individual, family and societal issues they will encounter. By introducing the contemporary context of midwifery practice, this book helps students to understand the problems many women face in society.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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