Breastfeeding, first-food systems and corporate power: a case study on the market and political practices of the transnational baby food industry and public health resistance in the Philippines

• Hoofdauteurs: Phillip Baker (Auteur), Paul Zambrano (Auteur), Roger Mathisen (Auteur), Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire (Auteur), Ana Epefania Escober (Auteur), Melissa Mialon (Auteur), Mark Lawrence (Auteur), Katherine Sievert (Auteur), Cherie Russell (Auteur), David McCoy (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background The aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) reduces breastfeeding, and harms child and maternal health globally. Yet forty years after the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (The Code), many countries are stil...