The Midwife as a Public Health Practitioner

Code

MIDW2014

School

Midwifery

Level

2

Credits

20

Semesters

Autumn UK

Summary

a)    Social determinants of health
b)    Concepts of health
c)    Health promotion, health education and health protection
d)    National and Global drivers for health
e)    Importance of birth to public health and well-being across the life-course
f)    Applied public health, E.G. Domestic abuse, safeguarding, substance misuse, immigrant populations, teenage pregnancy, smoking cessation, immunisation
g)    Salutogenesis
h)    Making every contact count
i)    the impact of pregnancy, labour and birth, postpartum, infant feeding, and the early weeks of life on longer-term health and well-being

Target Students

Pre-registration student midwives

Classes

200 hours of learning delivered by a variety of methods, including self-directed study

Assessment

• 100% Presentation: Individual poster presentations with a 5 minute structured oral defence to assess knowledge and understanding

Assessed by end of designated period

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
1.    Analyse the role of the midwife in the promotion of public health through current practice in public health against national and global drivers;

2.    Review how social determinants impact on health and well-being over the life-course. 

Intellectual skills
3.    Evaluate the evidence relating to the provision of public health.

4.    Examine theories of health promotion and health education.

Professional practical skills
5.    Demonstrate the skills for health promotion, the assessment of health needs and apply the principles of Making Every Contact Count.

Transferable Skills
6.    Inter-professional working.

Conveners

• Ms Traci Hudson