Breastfeeding offers significant protection against illness for the infant and numerous health benefits for the mother, including a decreased risk of breast cancer. In 1991, UNICEF and WHO launched the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative with the aim of increasing rates of breastfeeding. "Baby-Friendly" is a designation a maternity site can receive by demonstrating to external assessors complianc...

This paper, commissioned by the International Budget Partnership, aims to guide lessonlearning from the experience of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) initiatives — and to a lesser extent child-friendly budgeting initiatives — that might inform initiatives in respect of budgeting for climate change. It draws on the author’s experience, over nearly 20 years, of working on GRB and child-friendly...

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the World Health Organization launched the Global Age-Friendly Cities Project to support active aging. Canada has a large number of age-friendly initiatives; however, little is known about the effectiveness and outcomes of age-friendly community (AFC) initiatives. In addition, stakeholders report that they lack the capacity and tools to develop and conduct evaluations of t...

BACKGROUND Patient safety is one of the major issues concerning the medical community and the World Health Organization (WHO) in most countries. This study aimed to evaluate the patient safety status in an Eye Hospital in Tehran, using the WHO model for Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiatives (PSFHI) in 2012. METHODS This Cross-Sectional study was done in an Eye Hospital in Tehran. Measu...

Participants Mother-infant pairs were enrolled if the mother intended to breast feed, had no illnesses contraindicating breast feeding, and had given birth to a healthy, singleton infant who had a gestational age ≥ 37 weeks, birth weight ≥ 2500 g, and a 5 minute Apgar score ≥ 5. 17 046 mother-infant pairs were enrolled, and 16 471 (97%) completed follow up. 31 sites were included in the analysi...

Abstract Dementia-friendly community (DFC) initiatives are a community-level approach to support individuals living with dementia and their care partners. DFC engage in range of activities including raising awareness about dementia, enhancing local services, advocating for inclusive public facilities spaces. There is significant variation the implementation worldwide which creates challenges bo...