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Improving Breastfeeding Rates - Evolutionary Anthropological Insights for Public Health (Paperback)
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Improving Breastfeeding Rates - Evolutionary Anthropological Insights for Public Health (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Applied Evolutionary Science
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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Breastfeeding is championed as an effective way to improve global
health, associated with improved health outcomes for children and
mothers. Various public health strategies to promote breastfeeding
have been developed and implemented for over four decades, yet
progress has stagnated, and exclusive breastfeeding rates remain
low globally. From an evolutionary anthropological perspective, low
breastfeeding rates seem like an 'evolutionary puzzle';
breastfeeding is a behaviour which confers survival and fitness
advantage to children and mothers, yet so many mothers do not
breastfeed exclusively or at all. Is this a globally maladaptive
behaviour? Framing breastfeeding as a maternal investment
behaviour, an evolutionary perspective directs us to consider the
fitness costs of breastfeeding, together with the role of social
learning and cultural norms. Indeed, an evolutionary
anthropological perspective provides insights to why some
breastfeeding-promotion strategies may have been ineffective, while
pointing to potentially promising policies and practices which have
been overlooked
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