Prevention and health promotion

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Prevention and health promotion

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is the normal way to feed babies, boys and girls and has a decisive effect on individual and collective health.

It is a paradigm of health promotion since its activates of people's resources: mother, father, boys and girls as well as those professionals who play a key role throughout the birth process and early life.

Breastfeeding support concerns society as a whole, for protection from interference, for harmonization of life and work times, for the promotion of a favourable culture.