Monitoring the World Health Organization Global Target 2025 for Exclusive Breastfeeding: Experience From the United States

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• Alternative Title:
  J Hum Lact
• Personal Author:
  Gupta, Priya M. ; Perrine, Cria G. ; Chen, Jian ; Elam-Evans, Laurie D. ; Flores-Ayala, Rafael
• Description:
  Background ; Exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months, calculated from a single 24-hour recall among mothers of children 0 to 5 months of age, is a World Health Organization (WHO) indicator used to monitor progress on the 2025 global breastfeeding target. Many upper-middle-income and high-income countries, including the United States, do not have estimates for this indicator. ; Research aim ; To describe the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months in the United States. ; Methods ; We used a single 24-hour dietary recall from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2009–2012 to calculate the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months. We discuss our results in the context of routine breastfeeding surveillance, which is reported from a national survey with different methodology. ; Results ; Among children younger than 6 months, 24.4%, 95% confidence interval 17.6, 31.1, were exclusively breastfed the previous day. ; Conclusion ; To our knowledge, this is the first estimate of the WHO indicator of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months for the United States. This study supports the global surveillance and data strategy for reporting to the WHO on the 2025 target for exclusive breastfeeding.
• Subjects:
  • Breast Feeding
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Global Health
  • Goals
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Prevalence
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • United States
  More +
• Keywords:
  • breastfeeding
  • breastfeeding rates
  • epidemiological methods
  • exclusive breastfeeding
  • infant nutrition
  • nutrition
• Source:
  J Hum Lact. 33(3):578-581
• Pubmed ID:
  28355120
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5576017
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47865/cdc_47865_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 57.43 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a16c5671879642e7cba3286f99dc8eb0b871eb05dd70d025069ffea05031efb6