Failure to encourage breast feeding.

Could hospitals do more to encourage breast feeding?

and quite distinct dimensions ofhealth care.7'8 The use of crude measures of activity implies that more care is synonymous with better health and ignores the fact that few health care interventions have been adequately evaluatedboth from a medical and from an economic standpoint.9 Undertaking more activity regardless of its medical or economic effectiveness can no longer be justified as an obje...

Programme to encourage self-examination for breast cancer.

barriers to breast feeding: a review

conclusions as available data on the effect of pacifier use is conflicting, and continuation of breast feeding till 6 months of age is crucial for optimal health outcomes in infants, it is prudent to avoid pacifier use totally or at least till breast feeding is established. results rates of breastfeeding at 6 months were reported to vary from 3% to 95% and ebf from less than 1% to 33% in differ...

Breast feeding, bottle feeding, and maternal autonomic responses to stress.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the effects of breast feeding on autonomic nervous system (ANS) response to stressors. METHODS Sympathetic and parasympathetic activities were examined before, during, and after standard laboratory stressors in women who were either exclusively breast feeding (n=14) or nonexclusively breast feeding (n=14), and in non-postpartum controls (n=15). ...

[Breast feeding].

The research that was carried out with comparative groups showed the influence of the work done by a coordinated health group on the prolonged natural lactation. This experience has proved the evident reduction of percentages of malnutrition and diarrhoea in children under 6 months of age.