Breastfeeding. Setting a standard: the challenge for health visiting.
Health visitors agree that breast is best. But how far is this principle translated into practice? Copious evidence exists of conflicting advice and views on breastfeeding among health professionals and even between health visitors themselves. Marianne Cowpe, Ann MacLachlan and Elizabeth Baxter describe how north east Fife health visitors drew up an agreed standard of practice to boost local breastfeeding rates.
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MacLachlan
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Baxter
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D001942:Breast Feeding; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012606:Scotland