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Research Webinar: Supporting Infant and Young Child Feeding
From: Sandra Lawrence
Valid from: Wednesday 22 July 2020 to Monday 10 August 2020
RESEARCH WEBINAR: Supporting Infant and Young Child Feeding in the First 2000 Days
11 August 2020; 2pm – 3:45pm
REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/114057115904
A zoom link will be sent to registrants the day prior to the event
The Health & Well-being Research Theme, & the Mother, Infant and Family Health Research Network in the School of Nursing and Midwifery & the Centre for Transforming Early Education and Health (TeEACH) Western Sydney University invite you to register to attend this webinar.
The quality of an infant and young child’s diet is critical for growth and development. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2011) recommends all mothers exclusively breastfeed their infant for the child's first six months to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Thereafter, they should be given nutritious complementary foods and continue breastfeeding up to the age of two years or beyond.
But around the world, one in three children are not growing well (UNICEF, 2019) A majority of these children live in low- and middle-income countries, however, many live in high-income countries, including Australia. Almost one in two children worldwide receive breastmilk substitutes in the first six months either instead of breastmilk or in addition to breastmilk. Furthermore 21% of babies in high-income countries are never breastfed compared with 4% in low and middle income countries (UNICEF, 2018).
Please see the attached program for details of this event.
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