{"product_id":"breastfeeding-for-public-health-alison-spiro-9780367689575","title":"Breastfeeding for Public Health: A Resource for Community Healthcare Professionals","description":"\u003cp\u003eHealth visitors play a crucial role in supporting mothers who choose to breastfeed and their families. This accessible text enables readers to practise confidently in this vital area, focusing on underpinning knowledge and parent-centred counselling skills, and understanding cultural contexts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreastfeeding a child improves the lifelong health of a population, and promoting breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice. \u003ci\u003eBreastfeeding for Public Health\u003c\/i\u003e incorporates the voices of health visitors, mothers and fathers to give insight into common practical challenges faced and suggestions for overcoming or working around them. Presenting up-to-date research, it explores the practical skills needed by health visitors to support mothers with breastfeeding; how to develop the communication skills and self-awareness necessary to build successful and trusting relationships with women and their families; why breastfeeding is so important for babies' and mothers' health and psychological attachment, closeness and long-term mental health; what we know about the content of breastmilk and the positive effect it has on the baby's gut microbiome, which in turn benefits the infant's long-term health and helps to protect against non-communicable diseases; the role of the father and grandparents in successfully initiating and sustaining breastfeeding; and how cultural awareness and sensitivity can influence practice for the better. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by an experienced volunteer and practitioner with decades of experience as a health visitor and breastfeeding counsellor, this text is ideal for students taking Specialist Community and Public Health Nursing courses. It is also an important reference for practising health visitors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Spiro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 036768957X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367689575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.50d","brand":"Alison Spiro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136026030335,"sku":"9780367689575","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_576d4b64-7267-4f5b-b6b8-9eff21737620.jpg?v=1770160017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breastfeeding-for-public-health-alison-spiro-9780367689575","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}