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This practical and exciting new text pushes forward the boundaries of the health promotion role of the midwife today. It offers practical advice while integrating health promotion theory into midwifery practice. The reader is encouraged to explore current health advice and to appraise critically the available information on health promotion and especially the midwife's role in this area. Features: * Guides the reader through the very frontline of an area of practice becoming ever more important in a midwife's work * Tremendously practical and readable - can be applied straight back into real, everyday working life * Looks in detail at * Exercise during pregnancy - offering useful advice for midwives and exploring safety parameters * Alcohol, and whether there is a safe measure, challenging present health advice * Pre-conception care - and whether an improved service is part of the midwife's role * Smoking - showing how cessation during pregnancy can be built upon for long-term health gain

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For any health professional interested in social and politacal influences on health care and especially the evolvement of changing roles between patient/ client and professional, this book provides an interesting and grounding perspective . Yvonne Freer, PhD RGN, RM, RSCN, , Journal of Neonatal Nursing Volume 7 ISSue 3, January 2001

For any health professional interested in social and politacal influences on health care and especially the evolvement of changing roles between patient/ client and professional, this book provides an interesting and grounding perspective . Yvonne Freer, PhD RGN, RM, RSCN, , Journal of Neonatal Nursing Volume 7 ISSue 3, January 2001

For any health professional interested in social and politacal influences on health care and especially the evolvement of changing roles between patient/ client and professional, this book provides an interesting and grounding perspective . <i>Yvonne Freer, PhD RGN, RM, RSCN, </i>, Journal of Neonatal Nursing Volume 7 ISSue 3, January 2001

For any health professional interested in social and politacal influences on health care and especially the evolvement of changing roles between patient/ client and professional, this book provides an interesting and grounding perspective . Yvonne Freer, PhD RGN, RM, RSCN,, Journal of Neonatal Nursing Volume 7 ISSue 3, January 2001

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