Comparison of national cross-sectional breast-feeding surveys by maternal education in Europe (2006–2016)
OBJECTIVE: Breast-feeding is an important determinant of health of mothers and their offspring. The present study aimed to compare breast-feeding rates across Europe disaggregated by maternal education and establish what proportion achieves at least 50 % exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) at 6 months. D...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6474715 2023-05-15T16:51:22+02:00 Comparison of national cross-sectional breast-feeding surveys by maternal education in Europe (2006–2016) Sarki, Mahesh Parlesak, Alexandr Robertson, Aileen 2018-12-05 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474715/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30516455 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018002999 en eng Cambridge University Press http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474715/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30516455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018002999 © The Authors 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Research Paper Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980018002999 2019-04-28T00:25:19Z OBJECTIVE: Breast-feeding is an important determinant of health of mothers and their offspring. The present study aimed to compare breast-feeding rates across Europe disaggregated by maternal education and establish what proportion achieves at least 50 % exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) at 6 months. DESIGN/SETTING: Secondary analysis of national or sub-national studies’ breast-feeding data for EU Member States plus Norway and Iceland, published in 2006–2016. Nineteen EU Member States plus Norway reported rates of EBF and any breast-feeding disaggregated by maternal education, of which only thirteen could be matched to the International Standard Classification of Education. PARTICIPANTS: Mothers and their infants aged 0–12 months. RESULTS: Data on EBF rates at 6 and 4 months were found in only four and six countries, respectively. At 6 months, EBF rates of 49 % in Slovakia and 44 % in Hungary were closest to WHO’s target of at least 50 % EBF. At 4 months, mothers with high education level in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany had the highest EBF rates (71, 52 and 50 %, respectively). Mothers with low education level were less likely to initiate breast-feeding and cessation occurred early. The inequality gap ranged from 63 % in Irish mothers to no gap or very low levels of inequality in Poland, Sweden and Norway. CONCLUSIONS: More mothers with high, compared with low, education initiate breast-feeding and practise EBF for longer. More European policies should be targeted to protect, support and promote breast-feeding, especially among mothers with only mandatory education. Text Iceland PubMed Central (PMC) Norway Public Health Nutrition 22 5 848 861 |
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OBJECTIVE: Breast-feeding is an important determinant of health of mothers and their offspring. The present study aimed to compare breast-feeding rates across Europe disaggregated by maternal education and establish what proportion achieves at least 50 % exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) at 6 months. DESIGN/SETTING: Secondary analysis of national or sub-national studies’ breast-feeding data for EU Member States plus Norway and Iceland, published in 2006–2016. Nineteen EU Member States plus Norway reported rates of EBF and any breast-feeding disaggregated by maternal education, of which only thirteen could be matched to the International Standard Classification of Education. PARTICIPANTS: Mothers and their infants aged 0–12 months. RESULTS: Data on EBF rates at 6 and 4 months were found in only four and six countries, respectively. At 6 months, EBF rates of 49 % in Slovakia and 44 % in Hungary were closest to WHO’s target of at least 50 % EBF. At 4 months, mothers with high education level in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany had the highest EBF rates (71, 52 and 50 %, respectively). Mothers with low education level were less likely to initiate breast-feeding and cessation occurred early. The inequality gap ranged from 63 % in Irish mothers to no gap or very low levels of inequality in Poland, Sweden and Norway. CONCLUSIONS: More mothers with high, compared with low, education initiate breast-feeding and practise EBF for longer. More European policies should be targeted to protect, support and promote breast-feeding, especially among mothers with only mandatory education. |
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