Comparing Indigenous and public health infant feeding recommendations in Peru: opportunities for optimizing intercultural health policies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The problem of childhood undernutrition in low-income countries persists despite long-standing efforts by local governmental and international development agencies. In order to address this problem, the Peruvian Ministry of Health has focused on improving access to primary healthcare and providing maternal and child health monitoring and education. Current maternal-child health policies in Peru introduce recommendations that are in some respect distinct from those of Indigenous highland communities. This paper analyses the similarities and differences between public health and mothers' infant feeding recommendations. Furthermore, it analyses persistence and change in those recommendations among women who were mothers before and after the introduction of current public he

SUBMITTER: Monteban M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6245876 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature