Breastfeeding and intelligence study

Resource: Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil

Background Breastfeeding has clear short-term benefits, but its long-term consequences on human capital are yet to be established. The research aimed to assess whether...

FEX: Why invest and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?

Summary of research1 Location: Global What we know: Global breastfeeding rates remain far below international targets, commitment to breastfeeding in terms of policy and...

FEX: Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect

Summary of research1 Location: Global What we know: The decision not to breastfeed a child impacts on the health, nutrition and development of a child and on women's...

Resource: Distribution of infant formula: the appropriate response to child malnutrition in Iraq?

STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ARMED CONFLICTS ON THE NUTRITIONAL SITUATION OF CHILDREN, Annex 7. (Chapters 5 and Annexes available in this library see: IFE, conflict: Study on the...

Resource: Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis

Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis. WHO Collaborative Study Team on the Role of...

Resource: letter to BMJ

Letter to the BMJ regarding paper on exclusive breastfeeding rate and duration of breastfeeding.

Resource: Effect of not breastfeeding on the risk of diarrheal and respiratory mortality in children under 2 years of age in Metro Cebu, Philippines.

Yoon PW, Black RE, Moulton LH, Becker S. Am J Epidemiol 1996. 143(11):1142-1148 The effects of not breastfeeding on mortality due to diarrhea and acute lower respiratory...

FEX: NGOs and the private sector

Summary of unpublished report1 Recent research, carried out by an intern at Concern Worldwide, has examined the costs and benefits of public-private partnership, involving the...

Resource: Quantifying the benefits of breastfeeding. A summary of the evidence

A review of the main papers on the subject divided into chapters: Effect of Breastfeeding on Morbidity, Effect of Breastfeeding on Infant Mortality, Effect of Breastfeeding on...

en-net: Causality Analysis

Does someone know where I can get resources or information on experiences and standard design for conducting causal analysis of malnutrition? Not as far as I know. There is a...

FEX: Early initiation of breastfeeding reduces neonatal mortality

Summary of published research1 A recently published study assessed the contribution of the timing of initiation of breastfeeding to neonatal death. The study also set out to...

Resource: Breastfeeding and the risk of postneonatal death in the United States

Chen A, Rogan WJ. Breastfeeding and the risk of postneotal death in the United States. Pediatrics 113: 435-439, 2004 A large US based study based on national representative...

FEX: Infant Feeding Patterns and Risk of Death

Summary of published paper1 Current WHO guidelines recommend that HIV positive mothers should avoid breastfeeding only if replacement feeding is acceptable, feasible,...

FEX: Ten steps to successful breastfeeding programme in DRC: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Summary of research1 Location: DRC What we know: Whilst most mothers initiate and continue breastfeeding in DRC, exclusive breastfeeding rates remain low. What this article...

Breastfeeding, social justice and equity Conference March 2015

10th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference: Breastfeeding, social justice and equity: Reflecting, reclaiming, re-visioning is being held on 19-20 March 2015,...

FEX: Effects of breastfeeding: Implications for Policies on HIV and Infant Feeding

Summary of published paper The recognition that HIV is transmitted through breast-milk has raised important questions about strategies that promote breastfeeding in areas of...

Resource: Breastfeeding saves lives after earthquake Indonesia

100 breastfeeding peer counsellors trained in Indonesia following earthquake. Article and video. Also available here.

Resource: Breastfeeding - 10 Steps materials

UNICEF Breastfeeding 10 steps and WHO evidence for the 10 steps.

FEX: Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy Certificate Course

Dates: 9 - 27 June 2008 This three-week masters-level certificate held at the Centre for International Development (CIHD) in London, UK is the only advancedlevel...

FEX: Early Exclusive Breastfeeding Increases HIV Survival

Summary of published paper1 The promotion of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) to reduce the postnatal transmission (PNT) of HIV is based on limited data. The recently published...