title: Infant feeding: a reflection regarding the nursing curricula in Mexico City.
abstract: Given the key position of the nursing profession in primary health care, in this article we examine the nursing degree curricula in public institutions in Mexico City to establish whether these programs of study include the topics necessary to implement the current recommendations regarding infant feeding. We perform a documentary analysis that compares the nursing curricula to the two official regulations existing on the subject. In a total of eleven locations, nine public institutions offer undergraduate degrees in nursing. There are seven programs of study in existence, with different structures, course names, and thematic contents among them and all with insufficient and outdated bibliography. We recommend that the programs be made more equivalent, that the bibliography be updated, and that the relevant official standards and international literature be included, so as to better meet the challenges of modernity and globalization in the subject of infant feeding.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México.
authors.forename: Monserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salas Valenzuela
authors.affiliation: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México.
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Torre Medina-Mora
authors.affiliation: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México.
authors.forename: Citlal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meza Segura
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002947:Cities; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008800:Mexico; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: Nursing; Programs of Study; Infant; Feeding; Technical Standards; Mexico