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A Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in northern ChinaSchool of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada In the Peoples Republic of China, an approach has been adopted to ensure that all children born as a result of the one-child policy are healthy. The World Health Organization/United Nations Childrens Fund (WHO/UNICEF) has encouraged the Chinese Government to embrace this philosophy. Part of this approach has resulted in an attempt to increase the breastfeeding rates. This report describes a visit by two nursing faculty members of a Canadian university to an urban hospital maternity unit in the northeast of China, where the staff were attempting to incorporate this philosophy into their maternity care with the assistance of nursing faculty members from the local university. The method chosen to integrate this philosophy was the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative initiated by WHO/UNICEF.
Key Words: baby-friendly education government policies nurses
Nursing Ethics, Vol. 4, No. 6,
511-518 (1997) |
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