The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife (2020) provided us with many challenges,
during what should have been a year of celebration. This Special Issue honours the contributions midwives make to excellence in caring for women and their
babies. We include papers from around the world, with topics ranging from supporting
women and midwives during COVID-19, to workforce, education, models of care, politics
and much more. At the heart of our profession is the deeply valued philosophy of woman
centred care. While there are many ways woman centred care is referred to (including
erroneously as women centred care), it has roots in midwifery. Continuity of midwifery
care is often seen as an integral part of this. Taking an example from Australia over
the past 20 years, we call on midwives around the world to be vigilant about how this
central underpinning philosophy can be changed in subtle but powerful ways.
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2020
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