Best practices in prenatal health promotion: Perceptions, experiences, and recommendations of Ottawa, Canada, prenatal key informants.

Background: Prenatal health promotion includes the provision of evidence-based information and practical skills to optimize maternal-fetal outcomes. Increasingly, prenatal education is delivered by both healthcare professionals and allied childbirth educators, in community- or hospital-based group classes, targeted outreach programs, and online modules.

Objectives: To better understand how prenatal health promotion relates to a diverse urban community, we assessed the perspectives of Ottawa, Canada prenatal key informants.

Ottawa prenatal educator e-survey: Experiences and perceptions of public health nurses and allied childbirth educators.

Background: Prenatal education provides opportunities for health promotion of healthy behaviors and risk reduction. Quality and coherence with prenatal health promotion best practices depend on an individual class instructor. The objective of our study was to document the experiences, practices, and perceptions of our diverse Ottawa, Canada community of prenatal educators.

Best practices for online Canadian prenatal health promotion: A public health approach.

Background: Prenatal health promotion provides information regarding pregnancy risks, protective behaviours and clinical and community resources. Typically, women obtain prenatal health information from health care providers, prenatal classes, peers/family, media and increasingly, Internet sites and mobile apps. Barriers to prenatal health promotion and related services include language, rural/remote location, citizenship and disability.