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WHO 2017: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services

The 2017 WHO guideline, with 15 numbered recommendations, on supporting breastfeeding in hospitals, maternity facilities and other facilities that care for mothers and newborns. It updates the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding.

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Overview

Technical summary

WHO guideline, 2017, ISBN 978-92-4-155008-6, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; the who.int page date is 2 November 2017 and the IRIS record gives the same date. 120 pages; the list of recommendations and the methods paragraphs were read, not the evidence tables. It updates and supersedes the 1989 Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding. Recommendation 3 (practical support to initiate and establish breastfeeding and manage common difficulties) is recorded as a recommendation and claim on the breastfeeding support page; Recommendation 1 (early skin-to-skin contact) and Recommendation 14 (antenatal counselling) are quoted as context. Whether a later edition replaces it was not checked. This guideline is an addition to the plan's list for the cluster, made so that the WHO recommendation record has a guideline to belong to.

About this guideline

Edition
2017
Published
2017-11-02
Status
Not checked for a newer edition
Scope
Protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services.

Source

Document
Guideline: protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding in facilities providing maternity and newborn services
Publisher
World Health Organization
Edition note
2017. ISBN 978-92-4-155008-6. The who.int page shows 2 November 2017, which the atlas uses for WHO sources and decisions. The WHO IRIS item record (handle 10665/259386, fetched through the IRIS API as mj-iris-item-10665-259386.json) lists an issue date of 2017-11-02, the same day. The PDF was fetched from IRIS (bitstream 601a8af5-0919-4ffb-a11d-fb534d96ed03) and has 120 pages. Whether a later edition replaces it was not checked.

Recommendations

Record details

Record id
maternal:guideline-who-2017-breastfeeding-in-facilities
Content hash
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