Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis
OBJECTIVES: Canadian Aboriginal infants experience poor health compared with other Canadian infants. Breastfeeding protects against many infant infections that Canadian Aboriginals disproportionately experience. The objective of our research was to estimate the proportion of select infant infection...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6972165 2023-05-15T16:16:33+02:00 Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis McIsaac, Kathryn E. Moineddin, Rahim Matheson, Flora I. 2015-05-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972165/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26285193 https://doi.org/10.17269/cjph.106.4855 en eng Springer International Publishing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972165/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26285193 http://dx.doi.org/10.17269/cjph.106.4855 © The Canadian Public Health Association 2015 Quantitative Research Text 2015 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.17269/cjph.106.4855 2020-02-09T01:19:10Z OBJECTIVES: Canadian Aboriginal infants experience poor health compared with other Canadian infants. Breastfeeding protects against many infant infections that Canadian Aboriginals disproportionately experience. The objective of our research was to estimate the proportion of select infant infection and mortality outcomes that could be prevented if all Canadian Aboriginal infants were breastfed. METHODS: We used Levin’s formula to estimate the proportion of three infectious outcomes and one mortality outcome that could be prevented in infancy by breastfeeding. Estimates were calculated for First Nations (both on- and off-reserve), Métis and Inuit as well as all Canadian infants for comparison. We extracted prevalence estimates of breastfeeding practices from national population-based surveys. We extracted relative risk estimates from published meta-analyses. RESULTS: Between 5.1 % and 10.6% of otitis media, 24.3% and 41.4% of gastrointestinal infection, 1 3.8% and 26.1 % of hospitalizations from lower respiratory tract infections, and 12.9% and 24.6% of sudden infant death could be prevented in Aboriginal infants if they received any breastfeeding. CONCLUSION: Interventions that promote, protect and support breastfeeding may prevent a substantial proportion of infection and mortality in Canadian Aboriginal infants. Text First Nations inuit PubMed Central (PMC) Canadian Journal of Public Health 106 4 e217 e222 |
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OBJECTIVES: Canadian Aboriginal infants experience poor health compared with other Canadian infants. Breastfeeding protects against many infant infections that Canadian Aboriginals disproportionately experience. The objective of our research was to estimate the proportion of select infant infection and mortality outcomes that could be prevented if all Canadian Aboriginal infants were breastfed. METHODS: We used Levin’s formula to estimate the proportion of three infectious outcomes and one mortality outcome that could be prevented in infancy by breastfeeding. Estimates were calculated for First Nations (both on- and off-reserve), Métis and Inuit as well as all Canadian infants for comparison. We extracted prevalence estimates of breastfeeding practices from national population-based surveys. We extracted relative risk estimates from published meta-analyses. RESULTS: Between 5.1 % and 10.6% of otitis media, 24.3% and 41.4% of gastrointestinal infection, 1 3.8% and 26.1 % of hospitalizations from lower respiratory tract infections, and 12.9% and 24.6% of sudden infant death could be prevented in Aboriginal infants if they received any breastfeeding. CONCLUSION: Interventions that promote, protect and support breastfeeding may prevent a substantial proportion of infection and mortality in Canadian Aboriginal infants. |
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McIsaac, Kathryn E. Moineddin, Rahim Matheson, Flora I. |
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Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis |
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Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis |
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Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis |
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Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis |
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Breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in Aboriginal Canadians: A population prevented fraction analysis |
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breastfeeding as a means to prevent infant morbidity and mortality in aboriginal canadians: a population prevented fraction analysis |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972165/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26285193 https://doi.org/10.17269/cjph.106.4855 |
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