title: [Maternal lactation and birth spacing: importance of obtaining information in public health policy].
abstract: The presence of lactational amenorrhoea cannot be fully relied upon to protect the individual mother against becoming pregnant. Nevertheless, the use of breast-feeding as a birth-spacing mechanism has important implications for global health policy. This article identifies the information that should be collected and examined as a basis for developing guidelines on how to reduce the dual protection afforded by post-partum lactational amenorrhoea and other family planning methods, and discusses when such methods should be introduced.
authors.affiliation: Organización Mundial de la Salud, Unidad de Nutrición, Ginebra, Suiza.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saadeh
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benbouzid
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001721:Birth Intervals; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D014944:World Health Organization
vernacular_title: Lactancia materna y espaciamiento de los nacimientos: importancia de la obtención de información para las políticas de salud pública.