Breastfeeding in the 21st century
<p>The Lancet's Series on breastfeeding provides compelling evidence that scaling up breastfeeding could prevent a substantial number of maternal and child deaths. The UK media interest in the Series focused on the fact that only 0·5% of UK women are still breastfeeding at 1 year after gi...
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Elsevier
2016
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| Summary: | <p>The Lancet's Series on breastfeeding provides compelling evidence that scaling up breastfeeding could prevent a substantial number of maternal and child deaths. The UK media interest in the Series focused on the fact that only 0·5% of UK women are still breastfeeding at 1 year after giving birth. We believe that this prevalence (appendix pp 16, 17), which cites the 2010 Infant Feeding Survey, is incorrect.</p> |
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