Culture, Religion & Childbearing: A Handbook for Health Professionals

By Judith Schott and Alix Henley BA(Hons) DipHealth Econon

This book will enable health care professionals, particularly midwives, to understand the spectrum of cultural and religious issues that affect the quality of care that they can give to women and their families during child bearing. They are encouraged to reflect on their own attitudes and assumptions and are offered ways of improving their communication skills in this very sensitive area. Research based, the book also draws on interviews conducted specifically for this publication.

In a plural society, everyone involved in providing, planning and managing women's health services requires special skills to meet individual cultural and religious needs. This unique and sensitive book presents down-to-earth, practical and constructive ways of enhancing practice in all areas of women's health care.Information and insights into the ways in which culture and religion influence personal needsOffers a framework for identifying and meeting individual needs in line with the principles of the Patient's Charter and Changing ChildbirthGives opportunities to reflect on attitudes and current practice, as well asconcrete, practical and supportive guidance on essential interpersonal skills

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750620501
• ISBN13: 9780750620505
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Books for Midwives
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"