Promoting and supporting breast-feeding: Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
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The Baby-Friendly Initiative: Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding confers extensive and well-established benefits and is recognized as an extremely effective preventative health measure for both mothers and babies. Except in very few specific medical situations, breastfeeding should be universally encouraged for all mothers and infants. To improve worldwide breastfeeding initiation and duration rates, the WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-Friendl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.644