Brief
Aug 06 2019
Advocacy Brief: The global cost of not breastfeeding
Journal article
Aug 01 2019
Does health worker performance affect clients’ health behaviors? A multilevel analysis from Bangladesh (Epstein, A., 2019. BMC Health Services Research)
In this study, reseearchers found evidence for an association between health worker compliance and client health behaviors; however, small effect sizes suggest that behavior change is multifactorial and affected by factors beyond care quality.
Brief
Jul 23 2019
Nurturing the Health and Wealth of Nations: The Investment Case for Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is one of the smartest investments a country can make to build its future prosperity. It offers children unparalleled health and brain-building benefits.
Announcement
Jul 12 2019
Cost of Not Breastfeeding interactive tool
Globally, nearly 600,000 children and nearly 100,000 women die each year due to inadequate breastfeeding. These preventable deaths, combined with cognitive losses, and health system costs of inadequate breastfeeding leads to over $340 billion in economic losses annually.
Announcement
Jun 12 2019
Investing in Child Nutrition e-learning course
Investing in Child Nutrition is a free, publicly available online course designed to provide guidance, skills, and practical information to health workers to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding and com