Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
BMC Med. 2013 Dec 18;11:261. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-261.
Although the number of child deaths has declined globally over the past 20 years, many countries still lag behind their millennium development goal targets, and inequity in child health remains a pernicious problem both between and within countries. Breastfeeding is a key intervention to reduce child mortality, and in an article published in BMC Medicine, Roberts and colleagues have shown that breastfeeding interventions can have a significant role in reducing inequity in child health. With the proper attention paid to overcoming the barriers to scaling up breastfeeding interventions, deployment of effective interventions in health facilities and the community, and improvements in support for breastfeeding interventions across society, many countries that are struggling to meet their millennium development goals could make significant gains in child survival and inequity.
尽管在过去的 20 年中，全球儿童死亡人数有所下降，但许多国家仍落后于千年发展目标，国家之间和国家内部的儿童健康不平等仍然是一个严重的问题。母乳喂养是减少儿童死亡的关键干预措施，在《BMC 医学》杂志上发表的一篇文章中，罗伯茨及其同事表明，母乳喂养干预措施可以在减少儿童健康不平等方面发挥重要作用。只要适当关注克服扩大母乳喂养干预措施的障碍、在卫生机构和社区中部署有效的干预措施以及改善整个社会对母乳喂养干预措施的支持，许多正在努力实现千年发展目标的国家就可以在儿童生存和不平等方面取得重大进展。
