Epidemiology of breastfeeding, its importance for maternal and child health, well-being and sustainable development of society: an overview of current data
Abstract
In this article there are presented the modern data about the breastfeeding epidemiology in the countries with the different level of income, its influence on the mother’s and children’s health, the possible saved children’s and women’s lives.
This publication was prepared by using the papers in English including the modern systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the problem of breastfeeding and published like the Breastfeeding series in Lancet (2016).
About the Authors
L. V. Abolyan
FGAOU VO I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Abolyan Lyubov Viktorovna, MD, chief specialist of the Department of Public Health of the Institute of Leadership and Health Management
119048, Moscow, ul. Trubetskaya, house 8/1, SIC, Department of Public Health
U. M. Lebedeva
M.K. Ammosov NEFU
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lebedeva Ulyana Mihailovna, Ph.D., the head of the Center for Curative and Prophylactic Nutrition SRI Health; Chief Dietitian of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in the Far East Federal District, Chairman of the Yaroslavl “Russian Union of Dieticians, Nutritionists and Food Industry Specialists”
677000 Yakutsk ul. Kulakovsky, 46, Yakutsk, Rep. Sakha (Yakutia)
K. M. Stepanov
M.K. Ammosov NEFU
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Stepanov Konstantin Maksimovich, D.Sc., Associate Professor, Chief Scientific Officer, Head of the Laboratory of Medical Biotechnologies of the Center for Curative and Prophylactic Nutrition
677000 Yakutsk ul. Kulakovsky, 46, Yakutsk, Rep. Sakha (Yakutia)
S. V. Novikova
FGAOU VO Sechenov First Moscow State Medical Universit
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Svetlana V. Novikova, Master of Public Health, Post-Graduate Student, Institute of Leadership and Health Management
119048, Moscow, 8/1, SIC, Department of Public Health
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Abolyan L.V., Lebedeva U.M., Stepanov K.M., Novikova S.V. Epidemiology of breastfeeding, its importance for maternal and child health, well-being and sustainable development of society: an overview of current data. Yakut Medical Journal. 2017;(3):107-112.
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