Challenges to Midwives

This book provides information and practical advice for midwives when caring for women from different cultural and social backgrounds. Chapters include: challenges facing midwives around public health; social support for pregnant women; inequalities in the outcome of pregnancy; challenges midwives face when caring for asylum seekers; female genital mutilation; challenges midwives face when caring for pregnant prisoners; challenges midwives face when caring for women who experience domestic violence; assessing the quality of maternity care for Pakistani women and indigenous white women; and how stereotyping can lead to ineffective care and treatment. The text, written by experts and based on working knowledge from their own sphere of practice, can act as a reference for midwives and others contributing to the development of new dimensions in public health aspects of maternity care.