P0312 / #1241: CORRELATION OF A COUNTRY’S ECONOMY AND THE EARLY WEANING: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

Aims & Objectives: Breastfeeding presents itself as a potential health indicator regarding the newborn’s nutrition. The country’s economy plays a direct role in the mother’s social context and the conditions for her child’s care, including feeding. The study aims to search in the literature the correlation of economic aspects of the countries and the incidence of early weaning. Methods: Integrative review following two stages: problem formulation, literature search with pre-established terms: Breastfeeding, Weaning, and Economics. Evaluation and analysis of the data and presentation of the results. There were eight articles found in Virtual Health Library, two in Scielo and fifty-nine in PubMed, excluding repetition, sixty-five articles remained. After all abstract readings, there fifty-seven articles were excluded. In that way, eight scientific articles that fit within the inclusion criteria made the sample. Results: The country’s economy interferes directly in the economic situation of the newborn’s family, for example, in the family income and the decisions regarding the child’s feeding. Studies show a correlation between the economic situation with the early weaning and discuss the economic depreciation of the woman in the breastfeeding practice, the need for the accounting of breastmilk in the country’s economy for its predilection, and expansion of the artificial milk commercialization and its impact on economy and weaning. Conclusions: The studies correlate the country’s and family’s economic situation with early weaning, describing determinant factors for this ending and their possible implications for the newborn’s health.