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Displaying records 21 through 40 (135 total).

HealthConnect One, Illinois Department of Human Services, University of Illinois School of Public Health. 2013. Illinois breastfeeding blueprint: A plan for change. [no city, IL]: HealthConnect One, Illinois Department of Human Services, University of Illinois School of Public Health, 32 pp.

Annotation: This document, which is focused on the importance of breastfeeding and breastfeeding promotion, describes a plan for changing breastfeeding practices in Illinois. The document discusses the evidence base for breastfeeding, including benefits for mothers, psychosocial benefits, and benefits for families and communities. Illinois breastfeeding data are also presented.

2011

Keywords: State surveys, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Communities, Families, Illinois, Infant health, Mental health, Statistical data, Women's health

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health. 2013. It's only natural: Mother's love, mother's milk. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health,

Annotation: This website offers information to help African-American new mothers and their families understand the benefits of breastfeeding, make breastfeeding work, and get the support they need to breastfeed their infants.Topics include planning ahead, breastfeeding myths, overcoming challenges, finding support, and fitting breastfeeding into women's lives. One woman's breastfeeding story is also presented, and links to related information are included.

Link

Keywords: Blacks, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Consumer education materials, Families, Infant health, Mothers, Parent support services, Public awareness campaigns, Women's health

Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institue. 2013. Improving hospital breastfeeding support: Implementation toolkit. Oakland, CA: Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institue, 103 pp.

Annotation: This toolkit, which contains information about breastfeeding promotion in the inpatient setting, is designed to assist health care organizations and hospital teams in planning and implementing performance-improvement projects. The toolkit is organized around five primary components of performance improvement in hospital-based breastfeeding support: leadership engagement, planning and ongoing improvement, measurement strategy, keeping patients at the center, and sustainability. The toolkit provides information on evidence for breastfeeding benefits, Kaiser Parmanente's journey, building for successful change, and innovative ideas for breastfeeding support and promotion.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Hospital programs, Infant health, Leadership, Program improvement, Women's health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2013. Strategies to prevent obesity and other chronic diseases: The CDC guide to strategies to support breastfeeding mothers and babies. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 52 pp.

Annotation: This guide provides state and local community members with information to help them choose the breastfeeding intervention strategy that best meets needs, including hospitals and birth centers, worksites, and communities. This guide builds upon the research evidence demonstrating effective intervention strategies and offers relevant information for each including program examples and resources. Contents include maternity care practices, professional education, access to professional support, peer support programs, support for breastfeeding in the workplace and in early care and education, access to breastfeeding education and information, social marketing, and addressing the marketing of infant formula.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Intervention, Lactation, Lactation management, MCH programs, Professional education, Resources for professionals

Texas Breastfeeding Collaborative. 2013. Improving breastfeeding support through milk banks. Boston, MA: National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality , 1 video (4 min., 4 sec.).

Annotation: This video provides a tour of the Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas. The video explores how the milk bank works, explains why breastfeeding is important for mothers and infants, and discusses why donation milk is important for helping families to support breastfeeding. The video describes the screening and approval process for donors and explains how milk is tested, stored, mixed, bottled, pasteurized, and released to hospitals for use—primarily in neonatal intensive care units.

Link

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Community programs, Hospitals, Infant health, Mothers, Multimedia, Neonatal intensive care units, State programs, Texas, Videos, Women's health

UNICEF, the United Nation's Children's Fund. 2013. Breastfeeding on the worldwide agenda: Findings from a landscape analysis on political commitment for programmes to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. New York, NY: UNICEF, the United Nation's Children's Fund, 79 pp.

Annotation: This report provides information about an analysis to assess the political commitment to and priority for breastfeeding interventions globally and in selected countries to determine the need for and potential benefits of a targeted initiative to enhance leadership and advocacy. The report discusses evidence, policies, and strategic frameworks for breastfeeding, including a summary of global evidence on breastfeeding, policy bases for breastfeeding, and commitment to breastfeeding. Key findings from a stakeholder survey are also presented.

Keywords: Advocacy, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Initiatives, International health, Intervention, Leadership, Research, Surveys

Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee. 2013. Curriculum for a lactation program. Morrisville, NC: Lactation Education Accreditation and Approval Review Committee, 32 pp.

Annotation: This curriculum presents competencies and objectives to guide any lactation program, regardless of setting. Topics include communication and counseling; documentation and communication; history taking and assessment; prenatal and perinatal breastfeeding support; extended breastfeeding support; problem-solving skills; newborn/child breastfeeding challenges; maternal breastfeeding challenges' use of techniques and devices; public health; research, legislation, and policy; professional responsibilities and practice; and leadership and teaching. For each topic, information is provided about core competencies, learning objectives, suggested content, and suggested skills and behaviors. [Record in process]

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding promotion programs, Breastfeeding support, Lactation, Leadership, Legislation, Parent support services, Public health, Public policy, Research, Standards

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. 2013. Worksite wellness in state health agencies: Implementation of healthy maternity policies. Arlington, VA: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, 1 video (59 min., 41 sec.).

Annotation: This webinar highlights successful strategies and best practices that have been implemented in Nevada and North Dakota state health agencies to encourage breastfeeding and to help new parents return to work. In addition, the Virginia breastfeeding coordinator describes how the Virginia Department of Health has worked with businesses to develop breastfeeding policies.

Link

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Model programs, State initiatives, Workplace

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [2012]. Doctors in action: A call to action from the Surgeon General to support breastfeeding. [Atlanta, GA]: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2 pp.

Annotation: This fact sheet explains how physicians and other health professionals can support breastfeeding in clinical care practices. It describes how doctors can support their patients' intentions to breastfeed; provide best practices guidelines and breastfeeding support; avoid serving as advertisers for infant formula; develop skilled lactation care teams; and help create health care systems that guarantee continuity of skilled support for lactation between hospitals and health care settings in the community. Included are key actions steps identified by the Surgeon General to support breastfeeding in clinical care and a call for changes in clinical care practices that promote breastfeeding.

Keywords: Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding promotion campaigns, Family support, Health care systems, Lactation management, Physicians, Public health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [2012]. Nurses in action: A call to action from the Surgeon General to support breastfeeding. [Atlanta, GA]: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2 pp.

Annotation: This fact sheet explains how nurses can help breastfeeding mothers in clinical care practices. It describes how nurses can support mothers' intentions to breastfeed; promote breastfeeding as a standard of care; seek out opportunities to improve knowledge and skills; develop skilled lactation care teams. and provide breastfeeding support after hospital discharge. Included are key actions steps identified by the Surgeon General to support breastfeeding in clinical care and a call for changes in clinical care practices that promote breastfeeding.

Keywords: Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding promotion campaigns, Family support, Health care systems, Lactation management, Nurse clinicians, Physicians, Public health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [2012]. Health care leadership in action: A call to action from the Surgeon General to support breastfeeding. [Atlanta, GA]: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2 pp.

Annotation: This fact sheet explains how to support breastfeeding in health care systems by improving maternity care practices, providing breastfeeding support after hospital discharge, improving clinician knowledge and skills, including breastfeeding support as a standard of care, and developing skilled lactation care teams. Included are key actions steps identified by the Surgeon General to support breastfeeding in health care systems and a call for changes in health care that promote breastfeeding.

Keywords: Advocacy, Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding promotion campaigns, Health care systems, Public health

Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington. [2012]. My guide to working and breastfeeding: Tips on how to make working and breastfeeding work for you. [Seattle, WA]: Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington, 12 pp.

Annotation: This brochure, which is geared toward working mothers who are breastfeeding, provides information about how to successfully breastfeed while working outside the home. The brochure discusses why it is important to continue breastfeeding after returning to work, introducing a bottle, choosing child care, rights of breastfeeding women, pumping and storing breastmilk at work, creating a back-to-work plan, and overcoming challenges. The brochure is available in English and Spanish.

Keywords: Bottle feeding, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Child care, Consumer education materials, Infant health, Parent child relations, Parent rights, Spanish language materials, Women's rights, Working mothers

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. 2012. Health reform: What is in it to promote breastfeeding?. Washington, DC: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, 4 pp.

Annotation: This fact sheet outlines breastfeeding provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and discusses how maternal and child health programs can use the ACA to strengthen breastfeeding efforts for women. Topics include breastfeeding support, counseling, and equipment, as well as reasonable break time and appropriate space in the workplace. Sources and selected resources for further information are provided.

Link

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Health care reform, Legislation, State MCH programs, Women, Working mothers, Workplace health promotion

Fitzgerald EL. 2012. A quality improvement initiative to develop and implement an infant feeding strategy for Healthy Start. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Publishing, 158 pp.

Annotation: This dissertation describes a project to improve perinatal case manager knowledge and self-efficacy to promote breastfeeding among black women participating in Healthy Start, a national program to improve birth outcomes, using quality improvement methods. The dissertation describes the development of the training program and an infant feeding toolkit and the evaluation of the learning by the case managers who used the training program. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Blacks, Breastfeeding promotion, Healthy Start, Infant nutrition, Local programs, Massachusetts, Mothers, Training programs

International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. 2012. Clinical competencies for the practice of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) (upd. ed.). Falls Church, VA: International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners, 4 pp.

Annotation: This document presents clinical competencies for the practice of international board certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs). The competencies encompass the responsibilities and activities that are part of IBCLCs' practice. The aim of these competencies is to inform the public about fields in which IBCLCs can provide safe, competent, and evidence-based care.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding support, Guidelines, Safety, Health care, Lactation, Standards

Delaware Health and Social Services, Office of the Secretary. 2012. Growing Together: Calendar for parents. New Castle, DE: Delaware Health and Social Services, Office of the Secretary, 45 pp.

Annotation: This document provides guidance for new parents about health and safety in infants and young children from birth through age 5. The document describes how infants and young children grow and learn, how to keep them safe from harm, activities that parents can do with infants and young children, and what parents can do if they are concerned about their infant's or young child's development. Contents include tips and resources on reading with infants and young children, safe sleep, what to expect and what to do at each developmental stage, helping a crying infant, recognizing high-quality child care, fatherhood, finding and using health services including immunizations, and promoting oral health.

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Child development, Consumer education materials, Health promotion, Health services, Infants, Learning, Nutrition, Oral health, Parenting, Parents, Reading, Safety, Sleep position, Young children

University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, California Childcare Health Program. [2011]. Model health and safety policies: Safe sleep policy for infants in child care programs. San Francisco, CA: University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, California Childcare Health Program, 1 p.

Annotation: This document provides safe sleep guidelines for infants in child care programs. The document lists steps that programs can take to reduce the risk for sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexpected infant death, and the spreading of contagious disease. Steps cover sleep environment, pacifier use, smoking, breastfeeding, and tummy time.

Keywords: Breastfeeding promotion, Child care centers, Guidelines, Infant death, Infant health, Infant morbidity, SIDS, Prevention, Safety, Sleep position, Smoking

Baby-Friendly USA. (2011). The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: Guidelines and evaluation criteria for facilities seeking baby-friendly designation. [Upd ed.]. Sandwich, MA: Baby-Friendly USA, 31 pp.

Annotation: This document presents guidelines and evaluation criteria for hospitals and birthing centers seeking Baby-Friendly designation. The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative is a global program to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for breastfeeding. Guidelines address the following steps: (1) having a written breastfeeding policy, (2) training staff to implement the policy, (3) informing pregnant women about the benefits and management of breastfeeding, (4) helping mothers initiate breastfeeding within 1 hour of birth, (5) showing mothers how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, (6) giving infants breast milk only unless medically indicated, (7) practicing rooming in, (8) encouraging breastfeeding on demand, (9) giving no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants, and (10) fostering the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and referring mothers to them after discharge.

Link

Keywords: Birthing centers, Breastfeeding promotion, Breastfeeding promotion programs, Communities, Evaluation, Guidelines, Hospital programs, Infant health, Newborn infants, Quality assurance, Reproductive health, Support groups, Women's health

United States Breastfeeding Committee. 2011. Strategic plan: 2009-2013. Rockville, MD: United States Breastfeeding Committee, 3 pp.

Annotation: This report presents the strategic plan of the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) to promote breastfeeding in the United States. It contains sections on the mission and vision of the USBC and details specific goals. These goals are: to ensure that quality breastfeeding services are an essential component of health care for all families, to reduce marketing that undermines optimal breastfeeding, to increase protection, promotion and support for breastfeeding mothers in the workforce, and to ensure the sustainability and effectiveness of the USBC. Strategies for each goal are provided. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Breastfeeding promotion, Infant health, Infant nutrition, Strategic plans

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health. 2011. Your guide to breastfeeding for African American women. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health, 47 pp.

Annotation: This document provides guidance on breastfeeding for African American women. Topics include the health benefits of breastfeeding for infants and women, finding support and information, how breast milk is made, steps to take before giving birth, learning to breastfeed, common challenges and questions, breastfeeding and special situations, pumping and milk storage, going back to work, nutrition and fitness, and handling stress. Tear-out tools are included.

Keywords: Blacks, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding promotion, Educational materials, Families, Infants, Mothers, Women's health

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