Breastfeeding Medicine (click on the blue title link for full-text access to this journal) has recently been added to the MHC
Library e-journal collection.
Breastfeeding Medicine is an authoritative, peer-reviewed journal
created by physicians and dedicated to the advancement of breastfeeding
worldwide. The Journal answers the growing demand for evidence-based research
and explores the immediate and long-term outcomes of breastfeeding, including
its epidemiologic, physiologic, and psychological benefits.
Breastfeeding Medicine coverage includes:
- Breastfeeding recommendations and protocols
- Health consequences of artificial feeding
- Physiology of lactation and biochemistry of breast milk
- Optimal nutrition for the breastfeeding mother
- Breastfeeding indications and contraindications
- Managing breastfeeding discomfort, pain, and other complications
- Breastfeeding the premature or sick infant
- Breastfeeding in the chronically ill mother
- Management of the breastfeeding mother on medication
- Infectious disease transmission through breast milk and breastfeeding
- The collection and storage of human milk and human milk banking
- Measuring the impact of being a “baby-friendly” hospital
- Cultural competence and cultural sensitivity
- International public health issues including social and economic issues
Audience: Physicians, pediatricians, growth and development
specialists, midwives and perinatal nurses, obstetricians, and gynecologists,
among others
Please contact Deb Knippel or Michele Matucheski if you would
like to be added to the electronic table of contents for this journal.
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