4th Edition

Health Promotion in Midwifery Principles and Practice

Edited By Jan Bowden, Sam Bassett Copyright 2025
338 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

338 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. This thoroughly updated new edition considers recent changes and developments in midwifery practice and public health. It explores essential topics such... Read more

1. Global Health and Midwifery  - Lucy Flatley, Rose Beaumont & Alessandra Morelli

2. Public Health Policy & Midwifery - Dr Rebecca Whybrow

3. Health Promotion: The core role of the Midwife.  - Dr Sam Bassett

4. Factors affecting health promotion: a gendered issue. – Lucy & Charlotte

5. Health Promotion and Clients from Racially Diverse Communities- Verona Hall

6. Health Promotion considerations for clients from the LGBTQ+ community: embarking on starting a family - Teresa Arias, Grace Howard & Claire Singh

7. Health Promotion Models and Approaches . – Jan Bowden

8. Evaluating Health Promotion, What Midwives need to consider. – Jan Bowden

9. Health, Lifestyle and changing behaviours- Jan Bowden

10. Health Promotion, Conversations, Information and “Fake News”- Ruth Sanders & Kenda Crozier

11. Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy- Dr Tomasina Stacey & Chelsea Leadley

12. Breastfeeding -A Multifaceted Perspective on Health Promotion Zeni Koutsi & Sarah Johnson

13. Perinatal Mental Health promotion in Midwifery- Dr Amanda Firth, Ian P S Noonan & Charlotte Anne Kenyon

14. Maternal Suicide: A Key Public Health Issue for Midwifery Practice – Rose Beaumont

15. Midwives’ self-care and resilience - Ruth Sanders & Kelda Folliard

16. Sexual health promotion in midwifery practice -Sarah Kipps

17. Violence against Women and Girls-  Dr Hannah Rayment-Jones &  Dr Elsa Montgomery

18. Vaccinations and Pregnancy - Dr Sam Bassett

19. The displaced/migrant client- Maria Garcia De Frutos and Octavia Wiseman

Biography

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.