title: Scaling up protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding at the community level.
abstract: A World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF consultation held in 2008 focused on actions needed to promote infant and young child feeding, including integrating breastfeeding in community and health sector interventions; accelerating progress in breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support among working women; integrating breastfeeding into community development programs; advocacy and communication; situation analysis, monitoring, and evaluation; and planning and capacity building. Recommendations were given on how these could be accelerated based on reviews of country programs.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. casanovasm@who.int
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Casanovas
authors.forename: Randa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saadeh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D014480:United Nations; D014944:World Health Organization