Time trends in the prevalence of breastfeeding among schoolchildren from public and private schools in Florianópolis, Southern Brazil: From 2002 to 2013.
Katia Jakovljevic Pudla WagnerPatrícia de Fragas HinnigCamila E RossiMariane de Almeida AlvesMauricio S LeiteFrancisco de Assis Guedes de VasconcelosPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2020)
The results confirm the complexity of determining breastfeeding behaviors, and understanding these dynamics is fundamental to develop and improve programs and actions aimed at encouraging, supporting, and protecting breastfeeding. However, strategies developed in Brazil during the first decade of the 21st century should explain the increase of proportion of breastfed children for more than 12 months, and the concomitant decrease of never breastfeed children in the city of Florianopolis (Southern Brazil).