Brief

Jul 27 2023

Cost of Not Breastfeeding Advocacy Brief Series (2022)

Not breastfeeding has significant health and economic impacts. The Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool is an evidence-based modeling tool that uses open-access data to estimate the health and economic costs of not protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding.

Brief

Aug 16 2022

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Leveraging professional medical associations to strengthen MIYCN policy and programs in India

In India, a large proportion of pediatricians, gynecologists, community medicine specialists, general practitioners, and nurses working across both public and private health sector belong to professional medical associations.

Brief

Jun 21 2021

Status of MIYCN in Private Healthcare: Opportunities to advance mother and baby friendly health system in India

This brief presents the results of a survey of private health practitioners’ MIYCN knowledge and practices and private health facility systems, guidelines and processes related to MIYCN service delivery.
 

Brief

Oct 01 2018

Status of maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) in medical colleges and hospitals: Baseline assessment (2017) in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Despite a favorable policy environment for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN), frontline delivery of critical MIYCN interventions has been a sustained challenge in India’s public health nutrition programs.

Brief

Oct 01 2018

Roadmap for strengthening the role of medical colleges and hospitals: Integrating and promoting a maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) program and policy agenda

In India, the policy framework for addressing maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) exists, albeit accountability is spread across a myriad of schemes in multiple government departments.

Brief

Jan 01 2018

What works in infant and young child feeding (IYCF): Strengthening operational program elements to deliver IYCF at scale in India

The brief highlights key factors to scale up IYCF with impact based on a review of lessons learned from the A&T initiative and other successful global nutrition programs.

 
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