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Does Breastfeeding Support at Work Help Mothers and Employers at the Same Time?

Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding … and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the availability of breastfeeding facilities. Our findings indicate … that the availability of breastfeeding facilities is associated with a higher probability of breastfeeding and a higher …

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Liquid gold from the milk bar: Constructions of breastmilk and breastfeeding women in the language and practices of midwives

Burns, E.; Schmied, V.; Fenwick, J.; Sheehan, A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 10, pp. 1737-1745

establishment of breastfeeding. In published accounts of early breastfeeding experiences women report high levels of dissatisfaction … represent breastmilk and construct breastfeeding women in their interactions. Seventy seven women and seventy six midwives at … breastfeeding woman were observed and audio recorded during the first week after birth. In addition, data were collected through …

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Is unimpeded marketing for breast milk substitutes responsible for the decline in breastfeeding in the Philippines? An exploratory survey and focus group analysis

Sobel, Howard L.; Iellamo, Alessandro; Raya, René R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 10, pp. 1445-1448

Infant mortality and morbidity risk is linked to formula usage. The proportion of Filipino infant formula users rose 6% between 2003 and 2008. It is hypothesized this rise resulted from aggressive formula industry marketing.

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Social Marketing Sucks Marketing's Role in Promoting Breastfeeding

Do Paco, Arminda; Pinheiro, Paulo; Rodrigues, Ricardo - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010

associated with breastfeeding and in the problems arising from bottle feeding. It seems that there has been an ideological shift … towards the belief that breastfeeding is beneficial and necessary. The purpose of this paper is to describe a social marketing … programme aiming to foster breastfeeding adoption and prevalence. Besides the impact on mothers and children health …

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Model of the Experience of Breastfeeding: Faith on Emotions or hot Cog nition

Diaz-Meneses, Gonzalo - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010

demonstrate that breastfeeding behaviour is a widely emotional conduct. The results highlight the idea that, while the classic … hierarchy of effects clearly predominates the interpretation of breastfeeding behaviour in the existing literature, I show that …, breastfeeding emotions are more important than breastfeeding cognitions. From a practical point of view, this research leads to …

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Breastfeeding Mothers: Typologies and Profiles

Meneses, Gonzalo - Facultatea de Administraţie Publică, Şcoala … - 2010

The author conducted an empirical study with the goal of demonstrating that there are different types of breastfeeding … leads to recommendations that may improve breastfeeding campaigns, for instances, it has been shown that there are four … health and breastfeeding. …

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WIC Breastfeeding Policy Inventory

Forrestal, Sarah; Briefel, Ronette; Mabli, James - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015

Breastfeeding promotion and support is a core component of the nutrition services provided by the Special Supplemental … local WIC agenciesâ€™ policies and practices to promote breastfeeding; the breastfeeding measures that agencies collect and … Breastfeeding Policy Inventory survey instrument as an ongoing data collection tool for program monitoring and improvement. …

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Malawi's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Malawi has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). Under-five mortality declined from 244 to 71 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1990 and 2012, and maternal mortality declined from 1,100 to 510 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013. This note...

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The critical period of infant feeding for the development of early disparities in obesity

Thompson, Amanda L.; Bentley, Margaret E. - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 288-296

Childhood obesity is an increasing public health problem, particularly among minority infants and young children. Disparities in overweight prevalence persist and widen with age, highlighting the need to identify factors contributing to early excess weight gain. We review the behavioral, social...

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Maternal Country of Birth Differences in Breastfeeding at Hospital Discharge in Ireland

Brick, Aoife; Nolan, Anne - In: The Economic and Social Review 45 (2014) 4, pp. 455-484

In 2010, 46 per cent of Irish-born mothers were breastfeeding at hospital discharge, in comparison with 84 per cent of … birth is a large and highly significant predictor of breastfeeding at hospital discharge in Ireland over the period 2004 …-2010. Furthermore, we find that most of the difference in breastfeeding rates between Irish-born and non-Irish-born mothers is …

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