Abstract
Health promotion moves beyond changing the health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of individuals and covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Nepal has also introduced health promotion policies targeting health education, information and communication. Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), who are responsible for delivering primary care maternity services, especially in birthing centres located in rural areas of Nepal, also have an important role to play in the promotion of women’s health during pregnancy, intra-partum and post-partum. However, in the present context, health promotion provided by ANMs in Nepal is confined mostly to health education and behavioural-change communication. There are a range of health promotion activities relevant to maternity care and midwifery that ANMs can practice even in low-technology rural birthing centres. Such health promotion offers an opportunity to move away from a very medical and behavioural model to a more empowering one in order to prevent health problems in a cost-effective way.
Highlights
Health promotion is ‘a process of enabling people to increase control over, and improve their health
Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), who are responsible for delivering primary care maternity services, especially in birth
In the present context, health promotion provided by ANMs in Nepal is confined mostly to health education and behavioural-change com
Summary
Health promotion moves beyond changing the health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of in-. Revised: 21 November 2017 dividuals and covers a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Nepal has introduced health promotion policies targeting health education, information and communication. Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs), who are responsible for delivering primary care maternity services, especially in birth-. Accepted: 16 January 2018 ing centres located in rural areas of Nepal, have an important role to play in the promotion of women’s health during pregnancy, intra-partum and post-partum. In the present context, health promotion provided by ANMs in Nepal is confined mostly to health education and behavioural-change com-. To prevent health problems in a cost-effective way.
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