Breastfeeding in West Africa, Nigeria. A Look on its Health Benefits

Breastfeeding in West Africa, Nigeria. A Look on its Health Benefits
Author:
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3346429326

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: 73, Liverpool John Moores University, language: English, abstract: Breastfeeding infants is a public health priority because of its considerable benefit. This study aims to demonstrate why exactly this seems to be the case. Recent studies have shown that it protects the health of the infant, decreases the chances of metabolic disorders, and the rate of child mortality.

Progress for Children

Progress for Children
Author: UNICEF.
Publisher: UNICEF
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9280639889

Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five in the developing world each year. It can lead to poor school performance and dropout, it threatens girls' future ability to bear healthy children and it perpetuates a generational cycle of poverty. This volume of Progress for Children reports on the world's performance in improving nutrition in young children, a crucial step towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations

Diffusion of Innovations in Health Service Organisations
Author: Sir Trisha Greenhalgh
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0470987278

This is a systematic review on how innovations in health service practice and organisation can be disseminated and implemented. This is an academic text, originally commissioned by the Department of Health from University College London and University of Surrey, using a variety of research methods. The results of the review are discussed in detail in separate chapters covering particular innovations and the relevant contexts. The book is intended as a resource for health care researchers and academics.

Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding

Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9789241562218

WHO and UNICEF jointly developed this global strategy to focus world attention on the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children. The strategy is the result of a comprehensive two-year participatory process. It is based on the evidence of nutrition's significance in the early months and years of life, and of the crucial role that appropriate feeding practices play in achieving optimal health outcomes. The strategy is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact; it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in this regards of governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.

Breastfeeding: Support, Challenges, and Benefits

Breastfeeding: Support, Challenges, and Benefits
Author: American Academy of Pediatrics (Aap)
Publisher: Pediatric Collections
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781610021845

Pediatric Collections offers what you need to know - original, focused research in a snapshot approach. This print compendium of AAP editor-curated articles provides quick access to the latest, most salient studies to give a better understanding of the individual and public health effects of breastfeeding. Optimal breastfeeding practices--defined as exclusive breastfeeding through 6 months of age followed by continued breastfeeding with introduction of solid foods, save lives and have profound significance on an individual's health for their entire life. This collection offers the latest information to understand the challenges that breastfeeding mothers face and to support them. Other topics covered include cultural disparities and changing societal and lifestyle factors that affect breastfeeding patterns. This collection will help caregivers to better educate parents on the multitude of benefits for breastfeeding including disease reduction and cognitive and developmental advantages. A free "Breastfeeding Support, Challenges, and Benefits" infographic poster is included as a bonus to ordering this print collection.

Guidelines for Assessing Nutrition-related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices

Guidelines for Assessing Nutrition-related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
Author: Yvette Fautsch Macías
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Studies that assess and analyse people's nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) are a useful method for gaining such an insight into peoples' personal determinants of their dietary habits. The manual offers guidance and practical steps for planning and conducting a KAP survey, and for analysing and reporting the survey findings

Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition

Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Nutrition
Author:
Publisher: UNICEF
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9280644823

This report offers a rationale for urgently scaling up effective interventions to reduce the global burden of child and maternal undernutrition. It provides information on nutrition strategies and progress made by programmes, based on the most recent data available. The success stories and lessons leaned that are described in the publication demonstrate that reducing undernutrition is entirely feasible. The report presents detailed, up-to-date information on nutritional status, programme implementation and related indicators for the 24 countries where 80 per cent of the world’s stunted children live. While this report is a call to action for these 24 high-burden countries, it also highlights the need for accelerated efforts to reduce undernutrition in all countries.

Breast Feeding and Sexuality

Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Author: Mara Mabilia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782386076

Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breastfeeding among the Gogo women of the Cigongwe's village in Tanzania, as part of the Paediatric Programme of Doctors with Africa, based in Padua. The focus is on mothers' behaviour and post partum taboos as key elements in Gogo understanding of the vicissitudes of the breast feeding process. This nutritional period is subject to many different events both physical and social that may upset the natural and intense link between mother and child. Any violation of cultural norms, particularly those dealing with sexual behaviour, marriage and reproduction, can, in the eyes of the Gogo, put at risk the correct development of an infant with serious consequences both for the baby's health as well as for the woman's image as mother and wife.

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)
Author: Robert Black
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1464803684

The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.