Sentences with phrase «poor campaign strategies»

«We do not need to argue over this; our politics in this part of the world is bedeviled by poor campaign strategies, poor funding strategies, poor mobilization strategies and other less attractive approaches.

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The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Our experiences with anti-tobacco and other public health campaigns provide insight into viable strategies for diminishing the contribution of poor nutrition to cancer.

In theory, that's a noble enough act of de-mystification, but Alex Von Tunzelmann's script is premised on the idea that Churchill's piss - poor sense of military strategy and the disaster of the World War I Gallipoli campaign were somehow proof of his greatness.

As a 2001 Economist article spelled out, the strategy of linking the privatization movement to the wishes and activism of «poor blacks, not rich whites» has helped disguise the people actually behind these campaigns.