Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Front Public Health. 2023 Jun 16;11:1149384. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1149384. eCollection 2023.
Recent research highlights the importance of breastfeeding to health across the lifecourse, yet inadequate investment to facilitate breastfeeding according to World Health Organization recommendations threatens to undermine breastfeeding's protective effects. Western media narratives often fail to convey the significance of breastfeeding, and such narratives can hinder efforts to direct sufficient resources to scaling up effective systems and generating policy change. Delayed action disproportionately harms poor and marginalized communities. The urgency of making these investments in an era of rapidly intensifying climate change and other crises is clear. Reframing the narrative is needed to better appreciate the significance of breastfeeding as well as to recognize and address extensive efforts of undermine it. Evidence-based scientific, health professional and media discussions are necessary to recognize breastfeeding as foundational to food and health security and to enact change so that protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding is integrated across all policies.
最近的研究强调了母乳喂养对终生健康的重要性,但根据世界卫生组织的建议,投资不足以促进母乳喂养,这有可能破坏母乳喂养的保护作用。西方媒体的报道往往未能传达母乳喂养的重要性,而这种报道可能会阻碍为扩大有效系统和推动政策变革提供足够资源的努力。延迟采取行动会不成比例地伤害贫困和边缘社区。在气候变化和其他危机迅速加剧的时代,迫切需要进行这些投资。需要重新构建叙事,以更好地理解母乳喂养的重要性,并认识和解决广泛破坏母乳喂养的行为。需要进行基于证据的科学、卫生专业人员和媒体讨论,以认识到母乳喂养是粮食和健康安全的基础,并进行变革,以便在所有政策中纳入保护、促进和支持母乳喂养的内容。