Breast feeding

NARROWER TERMS

Briefing paper

Improving the uptake of the Baby Friendly Health Initiative in Australian hospitals

1 Oct 2020

Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research

Breastfeeding is a normal biological process and protects the health and well-being of mothers and babies. Yet breastfeeding continues to be undervalued by society, and in Australia women face multiple barriers to breastfeeding in the home, community, health care system and workforce. The Baby Friendly...

Strategy

Australian national breastfeeding strategy: 2019 and beyond

6 Aug 2019

COAG Health Council

This strategy document seeks to achieve an enabling environment for breastfeeding through policies, baby-friendly health settings, health professional education and training, and universal and targeted breastfeeding education and support services.

Literature review

Review of effective strategies to promote breastfeeding

22 May 2018

Julie Smith,

Adriano Cattaneo,

Alessandro Iellamo,

Sara Javanparast,

Marjorie Atchan,

Karleen Gribble,

Ben Hartmann,

Libby Salmon,

Susan Tawia,

Naomi Hull,

Marita Linkson,

Miranda Blake,

Megan Elliott-Rudder

Sax Institute

This review examines the effectiveness of strategies designed to improve breastfeeding considering their impact on breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration.

Report

Breastfeeding and infants' time use

3 Jul 2009

Jennifer Baxter,

Julie Smith

Australian Institute of Family Studies

Being breastfed during infancy is known to improve developmental outcomes, but the pathways by which this occurs remain unclear. One possible yet unexplored mechanism is that breastfed infants may spend their time differently to infants who are not breastfed. This paper analyses infants' time use...