The role of health professionals in promoting and supporting breastfeeding in Finland
Mekhail, Dina (2023)
2023
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Breastfeeding is beneficial to baby, mother, community, and global health. WHO set the recommendation for protecting and promoting breastfeeding, furthermore, established a global project to be applied at all the maternity hospitals all over the world. Purpose is to ensure the promotion of breastfeeding and to increase the exclusivity of breastfeeding and to educate health care staff to empower them with the information and knowledge about breastfeeding. The implementation of WHO projects in all health facilities that deal with mothers and childbirth shows a great improvement in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding. Those projects are Baby friendly hospital initiative (BFHI) or Neonatal baby friendly hospital initiative (NEO-BFHI), also implementation of the WHO of ten steps for successful breastfeeding.
The purpose of this literature review was to explore the current literature on the role of health professionals in promoting and supporting breastfeeding in Finland. The aim was to identify the factors that contribute to the breastfeeding rate in Finland, and to examine the actions that health professionals can take to promote and support breastfeeding in Finland.
This thesis presents the findings of the literature review conducted between September 2023 and October 2023, A total of ten (n=10) peer reviewed articles, between 2000 to 2023, sourced from Google Scholar and Pub Med databases were chosen for analysis, employing content analysis methods as the research methodology. This study reviewed the role of health professional in promoting and supporting exclusive breastfeeding in Finland. The partner organization for this thesis work was Savonia University of Applied Sciences.
The main results showed the importance of implementing the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), and to empower the health care provider with training about breastfeeding. WHO recommendation of the exclusive breastfeeding initiative within the 1st hour after birth and continuous till 6 months of age, and continuous along with the complementary feeding till two years and beyond was also stated in the results.
These results could be utilized as a learning material to also improve the health care providers BFHI competence. As a future extended study, with larger sample, as per Ministry of Social Affairs and suggest to make BFHI mandatory to all maternity hospitals and its staff.
The purpose of this literature review was to explore the current literature on the role of health professionals in promoting and supporting breastfeeding in Finland. The aim was to identify the factors that contribute to the breastfeeding rate in Finland, and to examine the actions that health professionals can take to promote and support breastfeeding in Finland.
This thesis presents the findings of the literature review conducted between September 2023 and October 2023, A total of ten (n=10) peer reviewed articles, between 2000 to 2023, sourced from Google Scholar and Pub Med databases were chosen for analysis, employing content analysis methods as the research methodology. This study reviewed the role of health professional in promoting and supporting exclusive breastfeeding in Finland. The partner organization for this thesis work was Savonia University of Applied Sciences.
The main results showed the importance of implementing the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), and to empower the health care provider with training about breastfeeding. WHO recommendation of the exclusive breastfeeding initiative within the 1st hour after birth and continuous till 6 months of age, and continuous along with the complementary feeding till two years and beyond was also stated in the results.
These results could be utilized as a learning material to also improve the health care providers BFHI competence. As a future extended study, with larger sample, as per Ministry of Social Affairs and suggest to make BFHI mandatory to all maternity hospitals and its staff.