U.S. maternity care practices are decades behind what science says is best for moms and babies.
Not exact matches
CDC data indicate that on average,
U.S. hospitals only scored a 79 out of 100 possible points on an overall measure of breastfeeding - supportive
maternity care practices.
Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding Mothers The
U.S. Surgeon General encourages the health -
care sector to help make breastfeeding easier for moms, beginning with ensuring that
maternity care practices are fully supportive of breastfeeding.
To analyze whether the implementation by
maternity facilities of practices that support breastfeeding varied depending on the racial composition of the area surrounding the facility, CDC linked data from its 2011 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to U.S. Census data on the percentage of blacks living within the zip code area of each
maternity facilities of
practices that support breastfeeding varied depending on the racial composition of the area surrounding the facility, CDC linked data from its 2011
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to U.S. Census data on the percentage of blacks living within the zip code area of each
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and
Care (mPINC) survey to
U.S. Census data on the percentage of blacks living within the zip code area of each facility.
Since 2007, CDC has conducted the biennial
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey, under contract with Battelle, to characterize U.S. maternity practices related to breas
Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and
Care (mPINC) survey, under contract with Battelle, to characterize
U.S. maternity practices related to breas
maternity practices related to breastfeeding.
To estimate the prevalence of facilities with recommended
maternity care practices by the percentage of black residents in their area, zip code level data for the category «non-Hispanic black or African American alone» were obtained for the period 2007 — 2011 from the
U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS).