Abstract
ABSTRACTObjective: To identify and to discuss the progress of actions for the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in Brazil from the perspective of the indicators proposed by the Global Breastfeeding Collective.Data source: A narrative review was conducted according to the methodological orientation of the implementation research and through a qualitative approach. Publications from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund were selected, as well as publications from the Brazilian Ministry of Health were collected from the Virtual Health Library and from the libraries of the Department of Primary Care’s portal and the Brazilian’s Institute of Geography and Research.Data synthesis: Brazil has shown promising results regarding the implementation of breastfeeding protection legislation, the participation of municipalities in community breastfeeding support programs, and the continued evaluation of these programs. However, reports of breastfeeding rates have not been produced every five years and the progress of these indicators is very far from the agreed targets for 2030. There is also a need to improve the number of births in child-friendly hospitals and financial donations for breastfeeding programs.Conclusions: It is necessary to strengthen systematic monitoring of breastfeeding and following up current strategies to more effectively impact the breastfeeding rates in the country. Furthermore, it is suggested that the practice of donations is a pathway to be explored to support breastfeeding programs.
Highlights
On August 1, 2017, the Global Breastfeeding Collective (GBC) was launched, a partnership between 20 international agencies, including non-governmental and academic organizations, institutions and donors, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef ), aiming to universally improve investments in breastfeeding (BF). This initiative aims to go beyond the proposed goals agreed at the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) and is in line with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals timeline, in addition to adding explicit targets for other critical aspects of BF.[1]
This study aimed to identify and discuss the level of progress of actions for the protection and promotion and support of BF in Brazil from the perspective of the indicators proposed by the GBC
This study was conducted based on the methodological orientation of the implementation research, which focuses on the identification and description of the phenomena and their associations with the context in which the implementation of a given program takes place.[7]
Summary
On August 1, 2017, the Global Breastfeeding Collective (GBC) was launched, a partnership between 20 international agencies, including non-governmental and academic organizations, institutions and donors, led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef ), aiming to universally improve investments in breastfeeding (BF). Regarding the assessment of progress in monitoring EBF rates, the GBC used data available from the Unicef IYCF Database.[10] The information about Brazil in this database refers to the numbers of the National Demographic and Health Survey of Children and Women (NDHS) of 2006.
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