What makes a city 'breastfeeding-friendly'? A scoping review of indicators of a breastfeeding-friendly city.

ABSTRACT: A breastfeeding-friendly city is one where there is an enabling environment to support breastfeeding throughout the first 2 years or more of a child's life. Indicators of a breastfeeding-friendly city have yet to be identified. What are the indicators or criteria used to define breastfeeding friendliness in a geographic area such as a city and the settings within, which we have classified as community, healthcare and workplace? Three major databases and grey literature were searched. Records were screened to identify publications describing criteria such as indicators or descriptions of a breastfeeding-friendly setting, defined as 'criteria-sets'. These criteria-sets were then categorized and summarized by settings. The search up to 2 September 2021 found 119 criteria-sets from a range of

SUBMITTER: Tan ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10981478 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature