A global child health practice that protects, promotes and supports breastfeeding through the policies and procedures of the facilities where babies are born, anchored in the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative that WHO and UNICEF launched in 1991. The initiative motivates facilities providing maternity and newborn services to implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, a package of institutional policies and procedures, so the intervention works at the level of health facilities and systems rather than through individual advice. WHO states there is substantial evidence that implementing the Ten Steps significantly improves breastfeeding rates. The initiative has been revised and expanded since its launch, and thousands of facilities worldwide have been designated baby-friendly since 1991.
Facts
Origin YearThe year WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative. Practice ClassMaternal and child health, nutrition 1 Classification
Practice ClassPreventive or Public Health Practice 1 Connections
Associated With
Source World Health Organization Official Site
In Branch
Source World Health Organization Official Site
Sources
1. World Health Organization Official Site
World Health OrganizationTen Steps to Successful Breastfeeding page, BFHI background
WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 1991 to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
Ten Steps page, evidence line
There is substantial evidence that implementing the Ten Steps significantly improves breastfeeding rates.
Ten Steps page, package framing
The Ten Steps summarize a package of policies and procedures that facilities providing maternity and newborn services should implement to support breastfeeding.
Program classification, entity description sentence
A global child health practice that protects, promotes and supports breastfeeding through the policies and procedures of the facilities where babies are born, anchored in the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative that WHO and UNICEF launched in 1991.
- In Branch: Maternal and Child Health, Ten Steps page, maternity services framing
Associated With: UNICEF, Ten Steps page, BFHI co-launch
WHO and UNICEF launched the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 1991 to help motivate facilities providing maternity and newborn services worldwide to implement the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.
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