Public health and health promotion - content
Find content on Public health and health promotion from across the RCM website - including articles from Midwives magazine.
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Mind your language(10.39, 9 September 2010) One of the biggest frustrations my partner had during her pregnancy was the tendency for people to go on and on about the pain of childbirth. The NCT tutor a mother of three went to extreme lengths to leave us in no doubt that it was going to be painful...
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Nausea remedies put to the testResearch into morning sickness recently published by the Cochrane Library drew widespread media attention with its claim that there is no cure. The RCM responded by highlighting that there was evidence, albeit limited, on the efficacy of ginger, acupressure and some antihistamines (reflected in NICE guidelines) and vitamin B6. However, advice to midwives and other health professionals is be careful not to overstate their value. But between your own experience and the practice guidelines, what remedies do yo
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CCTV expertise to prevent stillbirthsSurveillance experts have teamed up with a consultant obstetrician to try to find a way to prevent stillbirths.
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Neonatal mortality rates continue to improveThe perinatal mortality rate and stillbirth rate continue to fall across the UK, concludes a new report from the Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE).
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A beautiful pregnancyMany women worry about the effect that cosmetics and toiletries can have on young children or unborn babies, but an industry guide offers reassurance.
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Going to your nappy placeRCM education and research manager Sue Macdonald took a trip to Germany on a nappy fact-finding mission.
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12 months laterSpecialist midwife Juliet Albert reflects on the first year of a new community-based, midwifery-led, de-infibulation clinic for women with female genital mutilation in the heart of West London. She began her report in A ray of light in the FGM darkness, published in Midwives in September last year.
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It's the turn of Myleene Klass this time(13.17, 2 September 2010) Myleene Klass she of the white bikini in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! and the presenter of Ten Years Younger is not a celebrity one would immediately pick as an advocate of midwifery. I associate her with glamour, froth and fashion...
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First cousin marriages run health risks for childrenFirst cousin marriages in the UK are causing children to be born with genetic diseases and die young, claims Channel 4s Dispatches.
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Mother urges MP to join breastfeeding campaignA campaigner has criticised her local MP after he refused to sign up to the Breastfeeding Manifesto. Caitlin Hartley told the Huddersfield Examiner that she was hoping Jason McCartney MP would endorse the Breastfeeding Manifesto, a campaign to boost government support for breastfeeding.
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Is it political correctness gone mad?(10.05, 25 June 2010) What does the word angel mean to you? For some, it has religious connotations spiritual beings, messengers from God. For others, they are seen as attendants or guardian spirits, or simply it is a term for a person having qualities generally attributed to an angel...
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It doesn't make sense!(15.09, 9 July 2010) OK, this is a one-man campaign. Can everyone using Lucozade for the gestational diabetes test please stop? I may not be a scientist, but it does seem to be a particularly unscientific way of doing things...
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Saying 'no' to breastfeeding(15.27, 19 August 2010) A poll of young women finds a third would shun breastfeeding because they want to avoid saggy boobs. For some, vanity is the overriding factor when weighing up the pros and cons of breastfeeding...
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Increase in babies with bumps(17.38, 26 August 2010) There was a rise in the number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales last spring, according to the latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics...
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Obese or fat?(11.18, 30 July 2010) Society is getting fatter. It's a bit of a taboo subject really, but there's no avoiding it or dressing it up looking around the streets of almost any city, the number of overweight people has increased. The media is consumed by reports of obesity levels celebrities are getting skinnier, but on average, society is getting larger.
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For Louis(10.19, 10 June 2010) On 9 April 2009, I received the greatest news of my life, I was two weeks pregnant. Everyone I told was so excited for me, and friends followed my pregnancy on Facebook. I loved the whole pregnancy experience, from the first scan to my bump getting bigger...
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RCM hits back at 'anti-home birth movement'RCM general secretary Cathy Warwick has criticised what she calls 'sweeping and misogynistic' hype from doctors about the dangers of home birth.
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Are you late?Numerous complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have been made in the wake of the recent decision to air the first UK abortion services advert on Channel 4.
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Babies of young mothers more likely to suffer cot deathMothers under 20 are over three times more likely to have a cot death than their older counterparts, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown.
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Outlaw formula feeding!(12.28, 4 August 2010) I expect that models spend quite a lot of time being asked to get their breasts out, so perhaps its only fair that Gisele Bundchen, a 30-year-old who specialises in looking beautiful for the cameras, has decided to turn the tables...
