The modern approach to breastfeeding: epidemiology and its importance for moternal and child wellbeing from the public health prospective <i>(A Review of the Lancet Breastfeeding Series)</i>
Breastfeeding remains relevant in the 21st century. The current research into its unique properties attracted increased attention to breastmilk. This paper reviews the Lancet article “Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect” (Lancet, 2016). The review dwells...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Сеченовский вестник |
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| Online Access: | https://www.sechenovmedj.com/jour/article/view/9 |
| Summary: | Breastfeeding remains relevant in the 21st century. The current research into its unique properties attracted increased attention to breastmilk. This paper reviews the Lancet article “Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect” (Lancet, 2016). The review dwells upon breastfeeding international epidemiology; breastfeeding effect on maternal and child outcomes from the evidence based medicine prospective; the possible decrease in the number of preventable maternal and child deaths if breastfeeding practice is scaled up to conditionally optimal level. |
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| ISSN: | 2218-7332 2658-3348 |