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- Title
Monitoring the World Health Organization Global Target 2025 for Exclusive Breastfeeding: Experience From the United States.
- Authors
Gupta, Priya M.; Perrine, Cria G.; Chen, Jian; Elam-Evans, Laurie D.; Flores-Ayala, Rafael
- Abstract
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months, calculated from a single 24-hour recall among mothers of children 0 to 5 months of age, is a World Health Organization (WHO) indicator used to monitor progress on the 2025 global breastfeeding target. Many upper-middle-income and high-income countries, including the United States, do not have estimates for this indicator. Research aim: To describe the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months in the United States. Methods: We used a single 24-hour dietary recall from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009-2012 to calculate the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months. We discuss our results in the context of routine breastfeeding surveillance, which is reported from a national survey with different methodology. Results: Among children younger than 6 months, 24.4%, 95% confidence interval [17.6, 31.1], were exclusively breastfed the previous day. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first estimate of the WHO indicator of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months for the United States. This study supports the global surveillance and data strategy for reporting to the WHO on the 2025 target for exclusive breastfeeding.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BREASTFEEDING; BREASTFEEDING promotion; CONFIDENCE intervals; INFANT nutrition; INTERVIEWING; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORLD Health Organization; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Journal of Human Lactation, 2017, Vol 33, Issue 3, p578
- ISSN
0890-3344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0890334417693210