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

Gupta, Priya M.; Perrine, Cria G.; Chen, Jian; Elam-Evans, Laurie D.; Flores-Ayala, Rafael

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

Published Date:

March 24 2017

Source:

J Hum Lact. 33(3):578-581

Language:

English

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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.

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Pubmed ID:

28355120

Pubmed Central ID:

PMC5576017

Document Type:

Journal Article

Funding:

CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States

Place as Subject:

United States

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CDC Public Access

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