title: Regulations for the implementation of the General Law on Health in the fields of the health control of activities, establishments, products, and services, 4 January 1988.
abstract: Title XI of these Mexican Regulations contains provisions on food for infants and young children.  Among other things, these provisions require that the Secretariat of Health establish appropriate measures for the promotion of breast feeding, require medical units in the health care sector to refrain from promoting the use of breast-milk substitutes, and prohibit the employment in such units of representatives of professional departments, maternity nurses, or similar staff paid by manufacturers of infant formulas.
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D000569:Americas; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D006262:Health; D006296:Health Services; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007843:Latin America; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D008430:Maternal-Child Health Centers; D008800:Mexico; D009656:North America; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011320:Primary Health Care
keywords: Americas; Breast Feeding--legal aspects; Delivery Of Health Care; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Health; Health Services; Infant Nutrition; Latin America; Legislation; Marketing--legal aspects; Maternal-child Health Services--legal aspects; Mexico; North America; Nutrition; Primary Health Care; Promotion--legal aspects