Breastfeeding for Public Health av Alison Spiro

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<P>Health 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. </P><P>Breastfeeding a child improves the lifelong health of a population, and promoting breastfeeding is an important area of public health practice. <I>Breastfeeding for Public Health</I> 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''