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Breastfeeding
Advocates help communities latch onto a good idea
June 16th, 2005
In Philadelphia, a city where barely 20% of impoverished women breastfeed, changing attitudes toward breastfeeding has become a matter of course for students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Since 1995, the course Nursing 361 has required students to take part in a community advocacy program of their own design. In the May 2005 issue of the Journal of Human Lactation, Diane Spatz, associate professor at the School of Nursing and the course's instructor, offers guidelines for others to conduct such projects, as well as a model to demonstrate how advocacy can change communities. "Many problems women have with breastfeeding...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-16)
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