ArticlePublic health nutrition2021
Sociodemographic, health and pro-breast-feeding policies and programmes associated with breast-feeding duration in Latin American countries.
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- [Initiation of breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact in Latin American countries].Atencion primaria · 2026Observational
- Breastfeeding in Turkey: practices, barriers, and cultural dynamics for global insights.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Factors affecting infant feeding choices with a focus on barriers to exclusive breastfeeding in Western Jamaica: a qualitative study.International breastfeeding journal · 2024Article
- [Poorer countries have more pro-breastfeeding actions than rich countries: ecological study of 98 countries].Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
- Infant feeding practices in three Latin American countries in three decades: what demographic, health, and economic factors are relevant?Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Factors Associated With Initiating Breastfeeding and Continuing it for At Least 4 Months in Consuelo, a Rural Town in the Dominican Republic.Global pediatric health · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic determinants and inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding among children in Peru.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the duration of breast-feeding between 1990 and 2013 and to estimate the association between breast-feeding duration and sociodemographic, health and pro-breast-feeding policies and programmes in Latin American countries.
designThis is a cross-sectional study with data from Demographic and Health Surveys programme conducted in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic between 1990 and 2013. The median duration of breast-feeding was estimated by survival analysis. Information on pro-breast-feeding policies and programmes was extracted from the World on Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) tool. The association between the duration of breast-feeding and WBTi tool score was analysed by multilevel survival regression.
settingNationally representative cross-sectional survey from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Dominican Republic.
participantsWe included children under 24 months of age, totalling 17 318 children.
resultsBreast-feeding duration showed a significant increase in all countries, except the Dominican Republic. Mothers with higher schooling level (HR = 1·66; 95 % CI 1·35, 2·04), higher income (HR = 1·58; 95 % CI 1·40, 1·77) and overweight (HR = 1·14; 95 % CI 1·05, 1·23) breastfed for a shorter time. Breast-feeding in the first hour of life (HR = 0·79; 95 % CI 0·74, 0·83) was associated with increase in the duration of breast-feeding. Regarding WBTi, Peru presented the lowest score and the Dominican Republic presented the highest score. WBTi score was inversely related to the duration of breast-feeding for this set of countries (HR = 1·07; 95 % CI 1·02, 1·12).
conclusionsMothers with better socio-economic conditions and overweight breastfed for a shorter time. Breast-feeding in the first hour was associated with longer duration of breast-feeding. In this set of countries, higher scores from WBTi tool did not result in longer duration of breast-feeding.
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