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Lactancia materna en España. Un compromiso de todos
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Alonso, Carmen Rosa Pallás |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Of all the preventive activities a paediatrician can undertake, those that have the greatest impact on child health are vaccination and promotion of breastfeeding. The objectives set for the training of paediatric residents in breastfeeding should be very ambitious. Any breastfeeding lost through lack of training of professionals is a failure of the health care system. In Spain we have not up to now had any validated tool for estimating knowledge of breastfeeding. The rigorous study carried out by Gómez Fernández-Vegue and Menéndez Orenga offers us a valuable instrument for assessing paediatricians’ knowledge and skills in breastfeeding and will undoubtedly be very useful to supplement the training actions conducted in Spain on this subject. All of us who work as child health professionals, and are therefore concerned with breastfeeding, have long had a validated, evidence-based, universally applicable tool which succeeds in increasing breastfeeding rates: accreditation of our work centres under the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), established in Spain as Iniciativa para la Humanización de la Asistencia al Nacimiento y Lactancia (IHAN-UNICEF). This initiative was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF to encourage hospitals, health services, and especially maternity wards to adopt practices to protect, promote and support exclusive breastfeeding from birth to six months, and complementary foods up to at least 2 years of age. Spain has few accredited centres compared with other countries in our region (16 hospitals and one health centre), although in recent |
| Starting Page | 365 |
| Ending Page | 366 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.anpedi.2015.09.017 |
| Volume Number | 83 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.analesdepediatria.org/index.php?p=revista&pii=S234128791500280X&tipo=pdf-simple |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anpedi.2015.09.017 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
