Open AccessBreast-feeding in Navarra
Author(s) -
L. Barriuso,
F. SánchezValverde
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anales del sistema sanitario de navarra
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.175
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2340-3527
pISSN - 1137-6627
DOI - 10.23938/assn.0827
Subject(s) - breast feeding , medicine , demography , obstetrics , pediatrics , sociology
The state of breast-feeding in our autonomous community between 1986 and 1993 is reviewed. Two comparable Navarrese neonatal groups from our main maternity hospital are studied. The prevalence of the different types of breast-feeding at the time of discharge from the maternity hospital is compared, as well as monthly rates until the sixth month of life. The following conclusions can be drawn from this study: 1. The category of breast-feeding in Navarra is type 1 of the WHO. 2. Breast-feeding is abandoned in an early and massive way throughout the first six months of life in Navarra, with figures for this practice being undetectable by the sixth month. 3. There are barely any significant differences between the figures for 1986 and 1993.