Exclusive breastfeeding: aligning the indicator with the goal

While the global objective is exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for a full 6 months duration, the standard indicator is a “prevalence” indicator, that is, the percentage of all children under age 6 months who are exclusively breastfed at a point in time. That yields a higher percentage than a more direc...

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Autor principal: Pullum, Thomas W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2014
Materias:
Technical Notes
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276594
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00061
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Sumario:While the global objective is exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for a full 6 months duration, the standard indicator is a “prevalence” indicator, that is, the percentage of all children under age 6 months who are exclusively breastfed at a point in time. That yields a higher percentage than a more direct indicator of duration and can be easily misunderstood, exaggerating the amount of EBF. A measurement of actual percentage of children exclusively breastfeeding for a full 6 months can be easily calculated from standard DHS and MICS data.

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