title: Latin American Clinical Epidemiology Network Series - Paper 9: The Kangaroo Mother Care Method: from scientific evidence generated in Colombia to worldwide practice.
abstract: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a human-based care intervention devised to complement neonatal care for low birth weight and premature infants. Kangaroo position (skin-to-skin contact on the mother's chest) offers thermal regulation, physiological stability, appropriate stimulation, and enhances bonding and breastfeeding. Kangaroo nutrition is based on breastfeeding, and kangaroo discharge policy relies on family empowerment and early discharge in kangaroo position with close ambulatory follow-up. We describe how the evidence has been developed and how it has been put into practice by means of direct preterm infants care and dissemination of the method, including training of KMC excellence centers in many countries not only in Latin America but worldwide.
authors.affiliation: Fundación Canguro/Kangaroo Foundation, Calle 44 b, #53-50, La Esmeralda, Bogotá, Colombia. Electronic address: ncharpak@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Charpak
authors.affiliation: Fundación Canguro/Kangaroo Foundation, Calle 44 b, #53-50, La Esmeralda, Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Epidemiology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7, #40-62, Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Biostatistics, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Carrera 7, #40-62, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Juan Gabriel
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Ruiz
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D003105:Colombia; D016021:Epidemiologic Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight / Q000254:growth & development*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000254:growth & development*; D038622:Internationality; D060127:Kangaroo-Mother Care Method; D007843:Latin America; D008297:Male
keywords: Evidence-based medicine; Kangaroo Mother Care Method; Low birth weight infant; Nonsystematic review; Premature infant