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resource: Breastfeeding in Rural Niger: Lessons from Child Healthcare Promotion
access date: 2019-09-09 07:40:42
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Breastfeeding in Rural Niger: Lessons from Child Healthcare Promotion
type: Book
abstract: This book investigates the most effective behavior change communication (BCC) strategies to reach socio-economically vulnerable mothers to promote early initiation of breastfeeding after birth in rural Niger. It thereby goes beyond conventional research frameworks by looking into multifaceted indicators including socio-economic and demographic status of mothers, environmental health, family and community based social network and typology of field activities. The book analyses demographic indicators by using field based pragmatic perspectives to scrutinise what the numbers tell in the local context. It also analyses a unique dataset of non-health related indicators such as income poverty to measure socio-economic vulnerability of mothers, involvement of and interactions with other family and community actors in child healthcare in addition to conventional socio-economic, demographic and health seeking behavioural indicators. The book draws policy and strategy recommendations based on the thorough analysis of each risk and protective factor for breastfeeding after birth to redirect technical and financial investment towards its most effective use for the optimal coverage of populations deprived from access to basic health and social services. As such this book is a very valuable read to researchers, public health and nutrition experts and decision makers in child health.
volume: 12
date: 2019
publisher: Springer International Publishing
  type: Organization
  locality name: Cham
isbn13: 978-3-030-22392-2
isbn13: 978-3-030-22393-9
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22393-9
citation key: horiiBreastfeedingRuralNiger2019
short title: Breastfeeding in Rural Niger
language: en
creator: Person
author list: Person
is part of: The Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development book series (DTSD)

Person
given name: Naoko
surname: Horii