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| Title |
Is breastfeeding really invisible, or did the health care system just choose not to notice it?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Breastfeeding Journal, August 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4358-3-13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Chris Mulford |
| Abstract |
There are innumerable myths and misconceptions about breastfeeding that minimize its importance; these often keep health workers from providing effective care to support and protect breastfeeding. They are compounded by lack of basic and applied research, and by the cultural invisibility of breastfeeding in the United States. This paper highlights some of the blind spots and suggests the importance of an approach that places breastfeeding promotion and advocacy within the context of women's lives. As we work to ensure that the health care system provides good breastfeeding care, we need to guard against letting the medicalization of infant feeding keep us from remembering that breastfeeding is something that mothers and children do, in all the aspects of their private and public lives. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 26 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 25 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 8% |
| Professor | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 27% |
| Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 12% |
| Psychology | 2 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 3 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 May 2023.
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#16,048,009
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Outputs from International Breastfeeding Journal
#433
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#83,220
of 98,412 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Breastfeeding Journal
#3
of 7 outputs
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