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Breastfeeding Education Support Tool for Baby (BEST4Baby)

Description: Project Narrative Breastfeeding is good for mothers, good for babies and an especially cost-effective means for promoting infant survival, healthy growth and development. Yet a very large portion of the world’s infants, including those in India, lack the benefit of optimal breastfeeding practices. Breastfeeding Support Tool for Baby (BEST4Baby) will utilize exploratory research and community involvement to design and integrate mobile technology, culturally-appropriate breastfeeding education, and a community-based approach to increase breastfeeding support to mothers; and the initiative will provide evidence that the BEST4Baby approach can achieve the public health objective of improving rates of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and continued breastfeeding for an appropriate time thereafter.

Funder: Fogarty International Center

Funding type: research

Funder scheme: R21

Start date: 2017-12-09

End date: 2021-05-31

Investigator: RICHARD J DERMAN (lead)

Institution: Thomas Jefferson University

Topic: Breastfeeding Practices and Influences

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Funded outputs count: 5