ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2020
Costs of maternity leave to support breastfeeding; Brazil, Ghana and Mexico.
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- Breastfeeding at the workplace: a systematic review of interventions to improve workplace environments to facilitate breastfeeding among working women.International journal for equity in health · 2021Pooled it
- Impact of breastfeeding interventions among United States minority women on breastfeeding outcomes: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2021Pooled it
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- Gearing to success with national breastfeeding programmes: The Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) initiative experience.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Knowledge, understanding and perceptions of key stakeholders on the maternity protection available and accessible to female domestic workers in South Africa.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Breastfeeding and infant care as 'sexed' care work: reconsideration of the three Rs to enable women's rights, economic empowerment, nutrition and health.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Association Between Maternal Work and Exclusive Breastfeeding in Countries of Latin America and Caribbean.Maternal and child health journal · 2022Article
- Implementation of Breastfeeding Policies at Workplace in Mexico: Analysis of Context Using a Realist Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Towards a comprehensive breastfeeding-friendly workplace environment: insight from selected healthcare facilities in the central region of Ghana.BMC public health · 2021Article
- The financing need of equitable provision of paid maternal leave in the informal sector in Indonesia: a comparison of estimation methods.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Breastfeeding practices in Mexico: Results from the National Demographic Dynamic Survey 2006-2018.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- The impact of coronavirus outbreak on breastfeeding guidelines among Brazilian hospitals and maternity services: a cross-sectional study.International breastfeeding journal · 2021Article
- The yearly financing need of providing paid maternity leave in the informal sector in Indonesia.International breastfeeding journal · 2021Article
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objectiveTo develop a method to assess the cost of extending the duration of maternity leave for formally-employed women at the national level and apply it in Brazil, Ghana and Mexico.
methodsWe adapted a World Bank costing method into a five-step method to estimate the costs of extending the length of maternity leave mandates. Our method used the unit cost of maternity leave based on working women's weekly wages; the number of additional weeks of maternity leave to be analysed for a given year; and the weighted population of women of reproductive and legal working age in a given country in that year. We weighted the population by the probability of having a baby that year among women in formal employment, according to individual characteristics. We applied nationally representative cross-sectional data from fertility, employment and population surveys to estimate the costs of maternity leave for mothers employed in the formal sector in Brazil, Ghana and Mexico for periods from 12 weeks up to 26 weeks, the WHO target for exclusive breastfeeding.
findingsWe estimated that 640 742 women in Brazil, 33 869 in Ghana and 288 655 in Mexico would require formal maternity leave annually. The median weekly cost of extending maternity leave for formally working women was purchasing power parity international dollars (PPP$) 195.07 per woman in Brazil, PPP$ 109.68 in Ghana and PPP$ 168.83 in Mexico.
conclusionOur costing method could facilitate evidence-based policy decisions across countries to improve maternity protection benefits and support breastfeeding.
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