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Midwifery care for travellers

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Abstract

In recent years, sensational reporting by the media and the government response to travellers have raised the profile of this heterogeneous group of people. The aims of this chapter are, first, to consider travelling women within their social context and, second, to explore how midwives might offer appropriate care as indicated by an examination of health care issues and research evidence.

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  1. Mandy Churcher
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  1. Birmingham Women’s Health Care NHS Trust, UK

    Sheila C. Hunt MSc Econ, MBA, RGN, RM, PGCE (Professor of Midwifery, Head of the School of Women’s Health Studies) (Professor of Midwifery, Head of the School of Women’s Health Studies)

  2. University of Central England, Birmingham, UK

    Sheila C. Hunt MSc Econ, MBA, RGN, RM, PGCE (Professor of Midwifery, Head of the School of Women’s Health Studies) (Professor of Midwifery, Head of the School of Women’s Health Studies)

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Churcher, M. (1997). Midwifery care for travellers. In: Kargar, I., Hunt, S.C. (eds) Challenges in Midwifery Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13425-0_3

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