Counselling interventions to enable women to initiate and continue breastfeeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Main Authors: Alison McFadden (Author), Lindsay Siebelt (Author), Joyce L. Marshall (Author), Anna Gavine (Author), Lisa-Christine Girard (Author), Andrew Symon (Author), Stephen MacGillivray (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Many infants worldwide are not breastfeeding according to WHO recommendations and this impacts on the health of women and children. Increasing breastfeeding is identified as a priority area supported by current policy targets. However, interventions are complex and multi-componen...