Promoting breastfeeding at a migrant health center.

[The impact of a breastfeeding promotion program at a health center].

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact on breastfeeding sustained beyond two months of the "Seventeen Steps" breastfeeding maintenance program consisting of seventeen strategies used to promote, support and protect breastfeeding and implemented for ten months at a medical center. METHODS Nonrandomized clinical trial, involving 147 children born between 01/01/99 and 31/12/2001, who had attended th...

Promoting individualized breastfeeding experiences.

Breastfeeding is beneficial for the baby and the mother, but is yet to be successfully practiced by newly delivered women as proposed in the Healthy People 2020 goal. Most breastfeeding education during the prenatal or postpartum period provides adequate information for interested women. However, mothers need individualized client-professional interactions and follow-up after hospital discharge...

Barriers to Knowledge Management Implementation at Fasa Health Center: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

Background & Objective: Knowledge growth has been very rapid in recent years. Health centers can implement knowledge management in their organization to improve service quality, reduce costs and time, strengthen relationships among colleagues, and produce knowledge faster by reviewing barriers to knowledge management implementation at fasa health center. Material & Methodes: In this qualitativ...

Promoting health at the grass roots.

Interventions for promoting the initiation of breastfeeding.

BACKGROUND Despite the widely documented health advantages of breastfeeding over formula feeding, initiation rates remain relatively low in many high-income countries, particularly among women in lower income groups. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions which aim to encourage women to breastfeed in terms of changes in the number of women who start to breastfeed. METHODS ...