International health authorities recommend skin-to-skin care (SSC) at birth and that breastfeeding should be started as soon possible, within the first hour after birth. This article aimed to review benefits of initiation for mothers newborns, global status initiation, determinants breastfe- eding SSC, interventions improve initiation. The positive effects result from contact between baby mothe...

OBJECTIVES To report the self-assessed views of a cohort of medical graduates about the impact of having (or wanting to have) children on their specialty choice and the extent to which their employer was supportive of doctors with children. SETTING United Kingdom (UK). PARTICIPANTS UK medical graduates of 2002 surveyed by post and email in 2014. RESULTS The response rate was 64.2% (2057/3...

Objective This article aims to (a) suggest ways in which acute hospital environments might be modified to better meet the needs of the older person and (b) question whether options other than acute care should be canvassed for older people. Setting Acute hospital settings. Subjects Older people and people with cognitive impairment Primary argument Older people are large consumers of acute hospi...

National Breastfeeding Project in Thailand began in 1989. The main activities were the promotion of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative; legislation on maternity leave; and the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and related products. The development of Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative may in part explain the increasing of prevalence rate of breastfeeding. However exclusive breastf...