TABLE 3.

Theme 1 – Role in good health and well-being – Part 2.

Category	Code	Quotation
Improving maternal health	Health promotion messages	‘Physiotherapists have a very active and important role to play in reproductive health and maternal health services … Working in close collaboration with nursing staff at antenatal clinics … health promotion messages … preventing a lot of developmental disabilities’. (Exp 3)
	Complications of delivery	‘Physios [sic] play a role in women’s health by preventing complications of delivery’. (Exp 2)
	Breastfeeding advice	‘They can go into clinics and talk about the importance of breastfeeding’. (Exp 5)
Reducing child mortality	Promote healthy behaviours	‘Paediatric and child health services can definitely include physiotherapists … the link between women’s maternal health and child health is an important role that physiotherapist play … Encouraging pregnant women to eat well, be active, not engage in any harmful behaviours such as: taking alcohol, smoking, drugs etc. … all those link to foetal alcohol syndrome’. (Exp 3)
	Reduce mortality rates	‘What role can physiotherapy play in maternal and child health? A huge one!… We should all get involved in child and maternal health, antenatal care … postnatal care … we have to cap down the high incidence or rates of infants and mother mortality rates’. (Exp 1)