title: Appraisal of the effectiveness of nutrition education in the context of infant feeding.
abstract: The need for objective evaluation of the effectiveness of nutrition education is discussed. The impact of Department of Health and Social Security recommendations published in 1974 aimed at improving infant-feeding practices is assessed. Education was effective in increasing breast-feeding, but was less successful at improving other infant-feeding practices. Suggestions are made for the improvement of nutrition education in the context of infant feeding.
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008880:Midwifery; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012606:Scotland; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013222:State Medicine