Breastfeeding Promotion and Support Policies in Brazil

Pediatricians and the promotion and support of breastfeeding.

OBJECTIVES To survey pediatricians on their breastfeeding knowledge, attitudes, and practices and to compare these results with those of a 1995 study. DESIGN Cross-sectional follow-up survey. SETTING The Periodic Survey of Fellows survey conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics. PARTICIPANTS The survey was completed by 875 pediatrician members of the American Academy of Pediatrics ...

Breastfeeding Promotion, Support and Protection: Review of Six Country Programmes

Reviews of programmes in Bangladesh, Benin, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Uzbekistan sought to identify health policy and programmatic factors that influenced breastfeeding practices during a 10 to 15 year period. Exclusive breastfeeding rates and trends were analysed in six countries in general and from an equity perspective in two of them. Success factors and challenges were identif...

Breastfeeding promotion in Thailand.

National Breastfeeding Project in Thailand began in 1989. The main activities were the promotion of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; legislation on maternity leave; and the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and related products. The development of Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative may in part explain the increasing of prevalence rate of breastfeeding. However exclusive breastf...

Promotion of Breastfeeding in Europe

breastfeeding promotion in iran: opportunities and challenges