Health Promotion Strategies: Maternal Health & Foetal Safety Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of health promotion during pregnancy, emphasizing the importance of maintaining good health for both the mother and the foetus. It highlights the significance of prenatal care in reducing complications and ensuring a safe delivery, discussing normative changes during pregnancy, including physical, cognitive, and physiological aspects. The report also addresses the crucial role of midwives and nurses in providing support and information to pregnant women, along with essential nutrients and dietary recommendations. Furthermore, it identifies preeclampsia as a potential life-threatening complication and stresses the need for regular medical intervention. The brochure aims to educate pregnant women, particularly aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and linguistically diverse women, and suggests dissemination strategies for reaching target audiences, with the overall goal of promoting healthy pregnancies and improving maternal and foetal outcomes; Desklib provides similar past papers and solved assignments for students.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
PART 1: PAMPHLET.....................................................................................................................1
PART 2: SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS....................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

PART 1: PAMPHLET
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Maintaining good health in pregnancy and ensuring the safety of
the foetus
Importance of topic
Maintaining good health in pregnancy and ensuring the safety
of the foetus decreases complications at the time of pregnancy
and prevents issues at the time of delivery (Bwalya and et. al.,
2018). Regular medical intervention at the time of pregnancy
provide the vital information about those changes which occur
due to pregnancy and could put the maternal and foetus health
or pregnancy at very high risk. Since having healthy
pregnancy is the best ways to improve a healthy birth
therefore, it becomes necessary to maintain a good health
during pregnancy (Cecil and et. al., 2020).
One non normative events
Preeclampsia is a life threatening complication which causes
very dangerously more severe high blood pressure. If it left
untreated then it might be possible that cause loss of life.
Preeclampsia typically occurs after twenty weeks of pregnancy,
frequently in those women who have no any medical history of
high blood pressure.
Three normative stage
The three normative events during the pregnancies are:
 physical change during pregnancy: heartbeat and
breathing rate are faster, breasts become larger and
heavier.
 cognitive changes at the time of pregnancy: some
mood related changes, like they become more
sensitive towards their child crying and so on.
 physiological changes: at this stage of lifespan some
changes occur in maternal physiology like as
enhanced maternal fat and overall body water,
lowered concentrations of plasma protein and so on
(Laubo and et. al., 2022).
Role of nurses and midwives
Midwives and nurses are a very well qualified and trusted
source of information at the time of pregnancy and they may
provide a healthy lifestyle and support at this stage of lifespan.
Midwife and nurses are professionally very well trained and
have very good skills and knowledge related to the nutrition
and medical care at the time of pregnancy and leads to a
healthy and well lifespan for mother and foetus at this life span
(Manta-Vogli and et. al., 2020).

PART 2: SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1.In this brochure, significance of maintaining good health during pregnancy and safety of foetus
has been discussed. During pregnancy, to reduce the complication and enhance the mental and
physical health of the pregnant women, it is necessary to maintain a good health of pregnant
lady. Since health condition is very essential for a healthy pregnancy. Being healthy prior to the
pregnancy can assist to enhance the chances of getting pregnant. It may also assist to prevent
complication during pregnancy (Manta-Vogli and et. al., 2020). Therefore, it is essential to promote
health active at this stage of life span. In this brochure, several changes occur during the
pregnancies has been discussed. To know these changes very essential to all the pregnant
women, midwives and nurses. So, that pregnant lady can follow a correct and ideal routine at this
stage of lifespan and midwives and nurses can provide a correct care for pregnant women. Some
essentials nutrients and diets are also mentioned in this brochure by which a pregnant lady prefer
a healthy diet. Some complication is also mentioned in this brochure like very high blood
pressure condition which may cause a life-threatening condition if not treated at the time (Zhan,
Y., & et. al., 2020).
2.Most common audience for this brochure is pregnant women. Because in number of cases it
was seen that, there are more complication occur in those cases in which no any care provide to
pregnant women during this stage of lifespan (Bwalya and et. al., 2018). This brochure provides lots
of information to pregnant women, which assist aboriginal, Torres strait islander and
linguistically diverse Women during the pregnancy. There are number of language and
community organisation like linguistics which have useful websites.
3. To disseminate this brochure, number of copies of this brochure distribute in villages and
towns, specially for pregnant women. As a midwife and nurse I will use this brochure by taking
all the information in my practices (Laubo and et. al., 2022).
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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and Matero clinics in Lusaka district, Zambia. Reproductive health, 15(1), pp.1-8.
Cecil and et. al., 2020. Introduction: An insignificant event? Literary and anthropological
perspectives on pregnancy loss. In The Anthropology of Pregnancy Loss (pp. 1-14).
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Dereumeaux, & et. al., (2018). Urinary levels of pyrethroid pesticides and determinants in
pregnant French women from the Elfe cohort. Environment international, 119, 89-99.
Lamy, S., & et. al., (2021). Caffeine use during pregnancy: prevalence of use and newborn
consequences in a cohort of French pregnant women. European Archives of Psychiatry and
Clinical Neuroscience, 271(5), 941-950.
Laubo and et. al., 2022. The effect of nursing education strategies based on health promotion
model on increasing family independence in caring for maternal health. World Journal of
Advanced Research and Reviews, 14(3), pp.338-345.
Manta-Vogli and et. al., 2020. Nutrition and medical support during pregnancy and lactation in
women with inborn errors of intermediary metabolism disorders (IEMDs). Journal of
Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 33(1), pp.5-20.
McManus, R., & et. al., (2018). Translating healthy living messages to postpartum women and
their partners after gestational diabetes (GDM): body habitus, A1c, lifestyle habits, and
program engagement results from the families Defeating diabetes (FDD) randomized
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Pop, V., & et. al., (2019). Increase of depressive symptomatology during pregnancy over 25
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Zhan, Y., & et. al., (2020). Dietary patterns in relation to gestational depression and sleep
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