Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation. Second Followup Report

摘要

The 1984 Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation was a time of firsts for this Nation in promoting breastfeeding. It was the first time a national leader called attention to this method of nurturing infants, and it was the first time a national meeting focused exclusively on supporting breastfeeding. In addition, the breastfeeding strategies developed at the workshop are still used today as we move toward the breastfeeding objectives as published in Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. Two publications resulted from the workshop: The Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation (1984) and the Followup Report: Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation (1985). The 1984 report contains the proceedings, recommendations, and strategies generated at the workshop; the followup report describes breastfeeding promotion activities to implement workshop recommendations in the year following the conference. Both of these publications, currently out of print, have become valuable resources. Now this third publication, the Second Followup Report: The Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, has been developed to update breastfeeding promotion activities since 1985. It is hoped that all who read this second followup report will discover new inspiration.The Surgeon General's Workshop on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation represents a milestone in our continuing efforts to improve the health of our nation's mothers and infants.