Global Strategy for Infant and Y oung Child
Feeding
战狼口号World Health Organization
Geneva
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Global strategy for infant and young child feeding.
1.Infant nutrition
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2.Breast feeding
3.Feeding behavior
4.National health programs辛的组词
5.Health policy
6.Guidelines I.World Health Organization
II. UNICEF
ISBN 92 4 156221 8(NLM classification: WS 120)
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Contents
Abbreviations iv Foreword v Introduction1 Global strategy for infant and young child feeding5 Defining the challenge5 Determining the aim and objectives6 Promoting appropriate feeding for infants and young children7 Exercising other feeding options10 Feeding in exceptionally difficult circumstances10 Improving feeding practices12 Achieving the strategy’s objectives13 Implementing high-priority action15 For protection16 For promotion16 For support through the health care system16 For support in the community18 For support for feeding infants and young children in
exceptionally difficult circumstances18 Obligations and responsibilities19 Governments19 Other concerned parties20 Health professional bodies20
Nongovernmental organizations including
community-bad support groups21 Commercial enterpris22
The social partners23
Other groups23
International organizations23 Conclusion25 Annex Resolution WHA55.25, Infant and young child nutrition27 Endorment of the UNICEF Executive Board30
Abbreviations
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the键盘乘号怎么打
United Nations
穆斯林的葬礼HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome
ILO International Labour Organization
藏传佛教文化UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund
WHO World Health Organization
Foreword
W HO and UNI CEF jointly developed the Global Strategy for Infant and Y oung Child Feeding to revitalize world attention to the impact that feeding practices have on the nutritional status, growth and development, health, and thus the very survival of infants and young children.
The Global Strategy is bad on the evidence of nutrition’s significance in the early months and years of life, and of the crucial role that appro-priate feeding practices play in achieving optimal health outcomes. Lack of breastfeeding – and especially lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first half-year of life – are important risk factors for infant and child-hood morbidity and mortality that are only compounded by inappro-priate complementary feeding. T he life-long impact includes poor school performance, reduced productivity, and impaired intellectual and social development.
The Strategy is the result of a comprehensive two-year participatory process. The aim, from the outt, was to move towards formulating a sound approach to alleviating the tragic burden borne by the world’s children – 50 to 70% of the burden of diarrhoeal dia, measles, malaria and lower respiratory infections in childhood are attributable to undernutrition – and to contribute to a lasting re
duction in poverty and deprivation.
This exerci provided an exceptional opportunity to re-examine criti-cally, in the light of the latest scientific and epidemiological evidence, the fundamental factors affecting feeding practices for infants and young children. At the same time, it renewed commitment to continuing joint action consistent with the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative, the Inter-national Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, and the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breast-feeding.
GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR INFANT AND YOUNG CHILD FEEDING
The Strategy is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact, it emphasizes providing mothers and families the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and responsibilities in this regard of governments, international organizations and other concerned parties. We are proud of the unanimous endorment that the governing bodies of our two agencies have pronounced in support of the Global Strategy.1 The first necessary political step has been taken. It is now time for everyone concerned – governments as well as all the other innumerable actors throughout society – to move s写秋的作文
wiftly and deliber-ately to give tangible effect to the Strategy’s vital aim and practical objectives. There can be no delay in applying the accumulated knowl-edge and experience to help make our world a truly fit environment where all children can thrive and achieve their full potential.
Gro Harlem Brundtland Carol Bellamy
MD, MPH Executive Director Director-General United Nations Children’s World Health Organization Fund
1The Global Strategy was endord, by connsus, on 18 May 2002 by the Fifty-fifth World Health Asmbly, and on 16 September 2002 by the UNICEF Executive Board (e annex).
