Midwifery 2020

Public Health Workstream Final Reports

• Public Health Workstream Final Report
• Public Health Literature Review

Supporting Policy Documents

• Achieving Our Potential: A Framework to Tackle Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland (Scottish Government, 2008)
• All Wales Pathway: Antenantal Routine Enquiry into Domestic Abuse. All Wales Midwifery & Health Visitors Domestic Abuse Networking Group (National Assembly for Wales 2006)
• Better Health, Better Care: Action Plan (Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2007)
• Early Years Framework (Scottish Government, 2009)
• Ending child poverty: making it happen - Child Poverty Unit (Department for Children, Schools and Families 2009)
• Equally Well: Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequaltiies (Scottish Government Health Directorate, 2008)
• Getting It Right For Every Child - consultation on a set of principles and proposals for changes to children's services (Scottish Government, 2005)
• Health Eating, Active Lives: An action plan to improve diet, increase physical activity and tackle obesity 2008-2011(Scottish Government,2008)
• Healthy lives, brighter futures - The strategy for children's and young people's health (Department of Health, 2009
• Investing in a Better Start: Promoting Breastfeeding in Wales (National Assembly for Wales 2001)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - Brief interventions and referral for smoking cessation (2006)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - Smoking cessation services (2008)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence -Prevention of sexually transmitted infections and under 18 conceptions (2007)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - Maternal and Child Nutrition (2008)
• Nursing for Health: A review of the contribution of nurses, midwives and health visitors to improving the public's health in Scotland (Scottish Government Health Directorate 2001)
• One Wales: A Progressive Agenda for the Government of Wales 2007
• Reaching Out: An Action Plan on Social Exclusion (Cabinet Office 2009)
• The Work Foundation - Sinclair, A. (2007) 0-5: how small children make a big difference (Provocation Series, Volume 3  Number 1)
• Breastfeeding Strategy for Northern Ireland DHSS 1999
• Tackling Sexual Violence and Abuse, A regional strategy 2008-2013, NIO & DHSSPS 2008
• Sexual Health Promotion Strategy and Action Plan 2008-2013, DHSSPS 2008
• A Healthier Future, A 20 year vision for health and wellbeing in Northern Ireland 2005-2025, DHSSPS 2004
• Investing for Health, DHSSPS 2002

Elliott, L. (2004) The effectiveness of public health nursing: the problems and solutions in carrying out a review of systematic reviews. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 45(2), 117-125

• Godfrey, K., Robinson, S., Barker, D.J.P., Osmond, C., and Cox, V. (1996) Maternal nutrition in early and late pregnancy in relation to placental and fetal growth.  British Medical Journal, 312, 410-414
• Hallal, P., C., Wells, J.C.K., Reichert, F.F., Anselmi, L., and Victora, C.G. (2006) Early determinants of physical activity in adolescence: prospective birth cohort study.  British Medical Journal, 332, 1002-1007
• Lawlor, D.A., Riddoch, C.J., Page, A.S., Andersen, L.B., Wedderkopp, N., Harro, M., Stansbie, D. and Davey Smith, G. (2005) Infant feeding and components of the metabolic syndrome: findings from the European Youth Heart Study.  Archives of Diseases in Childhood, 90, 582-588
• Lee, E. (2007) Health, morality, and infant feeding: British mothers' experiences of  formula milk use in the early weeks.  Sociology of Health & Illness, 29(7), 1075-1090
• Ogilvie, D. and Hamlet, N. (2005)Thoughts for today -Obesity: the elephant in the corner. British Medical Journal, 331,1545-1548
• Oken, E., Levitan, E.B. and Gillman, M.W. (2008) Maternal smoking during pregnancy and child overweight: systemativ review and meta-analysis.  International Journal of Obstetrics, 32(2), 201-210