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ArticleScientific reports2023

The impact of health policies and the COVID-19 pandemic on exclusive breastfeeding in Chile during 2009-2020.

Deborah Navarro-Rosenblatt, Tarik Benmarhnia, Paula Bedregal, Sandra Lopez-Arana, Lorena Rodriguez-Osiac, Maria Luisa Garmendia

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Deborah Navarro-RosenblattPhD Program, School of Public Health, University of Chile, Av. Independencia 939, Independencia, Santiago, Chile.
Tarik BenmarhniaDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California at San Diego, California, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Paula BedregalSchool of Public Health, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile.
Sandra Lopez-AranaDepartment of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Av. Independencia 1027, Santiago, Chile.
Lorena Rodriguez-OsiacSchool of Public Health, University of Chile, Av. Independencia 939, Santiago, Chile.
Maria Luisa GarmendiaInstitute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Av. El Libano 5524, Macul, Santiago, Chile. mgarmendia@inta.uchile.cl.
University of Chile · CLPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · CLUniversity of California, San Diego · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2011, Chile added 12 mandatory extra weeks of maternity leave (ML). In January 2015, a pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy was included in the primary healthcare system, incorporating exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) promotion actions. The COVID-19 pandemic led to healthcare access difficulties and augmented household workloads. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a 24-week ML, the P4P strategy, and COVID-19 on EBF prevalence, at 3 and 6 months in Chile. Aggregated EBF prevalence data from public healthcare users nationwide (80% of the Chilean population) was collected by month. Interrupted time series analyses were used to quantify changes in EBF trends from 2009 to 2020. The heterogeneity of EBF changes was assessed by urban/setting and across geographic settings. We found no effect of ML on EBF; the P4P strategy increased EBF at 3 months by 3.1% and 5.7% at 6 months. COVID-19 reduced EBF at 3 months by  - 4.5%. Geographical heterogeneity in the impact of the two policies and COVID-19 on EBF was identified. The null effect of ML on EBF in the public healthcare system could be explained by low access from public healthcare users to ML (20% had access to ML) and by an insufficient ML duration (five and a half months). The negative impact of COVID-19 on EBF should alert policy makers about the crisis's effect on health promotion activities.

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COVID-19Breast FeedingChileFemaleHealth PolicyHumansPandemicsPregnancyReimbursement, Incentive

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