What works to protect, promote and support breastfeeding on a large scale: A review of reviews.

ABSTRACT: Globally women continue to face substantial barriers to breastfeeding. The 2016 Lancet Breastfeeding Series identified key barriers and reviewed effective interventions that address them. The present study updates the evidence base since 2016 using a review of reviews approach. Searches were implemented using the Epistomenikos database. One hundred and fifteen reviews of interventions were identified and assessed for quality and risk of bias. Over half of reviews (53%) were high- or moderate quality, with the remaining low or critically low quality due to weaknesses in assessment of bias. A large portion of studies addressed high-income and upper-middle income settings, (41%), and a majority (63%) addressed health systems, followed by community and family settings (39%). Findings from revi

SUBMITTER: Tomori C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113479 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature