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Sociodemographic, health and pro-breast-feeding policies and programmes associated with breast-feeding duration in Latin American countries.

Danielle Mendonça Buiatti LamounierCatarina Machado AzeredoJosé Leopoldo Ferreira AntunesWolney Lisboa CondeAna Elisa Madalena Rinaldi
Published in: Public health nutrition (2020)
Mothers with better socio-economic conditions and overweight breastfed for a shorter time. Breast-feeding in the first hour was associated with longer duration of breast-feeding. In this set of countries, higher scores from WBTi tool did not result in longer duration of breast-feeding.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • healthcare
  • blood pressure
  • mental health
  • weight loss
  • risk assessment
  • body mass index
  • weight gain