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Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative
Recent research highlights the importance of breastfeeding to health across the lifecourse, yet inadequate investment to facilitate breastfeeding according to World Health Organization recommendations threatens to undermine breastfeeding’s protective effects. Western media narratives often fail to c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37397783 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1149384 |
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author | Tomori, Cecília |
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description | Recent research highlights the importance of breastfeeding to health across the lifecourse, yet inadequate investment to facilitate breastfeeding according to World Health Organization recommendations threatens to undermine breastfeeding’s protective effects. Western media narratives often fail to convey the significance of breastfeeding, and such narratives can hinder efforts to direct sufficient resources to scaling up effective systems and generating policy change. Delayed action disproportionately harms poor and marginalized communities. The urgency of making these investments in an era of rapidly intensifying climate change and other crises is clear. Reframing the narrative is needed to better appreciate the significance of breastfeeding as well as to recognize and address extensive efforts of undermine it. Evidence-based scientific, health professional and media discussions are necessary to recognize breastfeeding as foundational to food and health security and to enact change so that protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding is integrated across all policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-103133982023-07-01 Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative Tomori, Cecília Front Public Health Public Health Recent research highlights the importance of breastfeeding to health across the lifecourse, yet inadequate investment to facilitate breastfeeding according to World Health Organization recommendations threatens to undermine breastfeeding’s protective effects. Western media narratives often fail to convey the significance of breastfeeding, and such narratives can hinder efforts to direct sufficient resources to scaling up effective systems and generating policy change. Delayed action disproportionately harms poor and marginalized communities. The urgency of making these investments in an era of rapidly intensifying climate change and other crises is clear. Reframing the narrative is needed to better appreciate the significance of breastfeeding as well as to recognize and address extensive efforts of undermine it. Evidence-based scientific, health professional and media discussions are necessary to recognize breastfeeding as foundational to food and health security and to enact change so that protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding is integrated across all policies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10313398/ /pubmed/37397783 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1149384 Text en Copyright © 2023 Tomori. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Tomori, Cecília Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
title | Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
title_full | Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
title_fullStr | Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
title_full_unstemmed | Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
title_short | Protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
title_sort | protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in all policies: reframing the narrative |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10313398/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37397783 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1149384 |
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