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Certified Lactation Consultant Exam 2024/2025
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Certified Lactation Consultant Exam2024/2025
The World Health Organization and UNICEF have set out three
strategies needed for increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration in
every country. What are the 3 strategies? - Precise Answer
✔✔Breastfeeding Promotion
Breastfeeding Protection
Breastfeeding Support
Focuses on advantages of breastfeeding on a personal (personal
connection), community, country (amount spent on healthcare), or
global level (waste from formula & formula products)
Focuses on the good "advantages" of breastfeeding - Precise Answer
✔✔Breastfeeding Promotion
Focuses on government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to
assure breast feeding's ability to compete with commercial interests.
Includes addressing improper marketing practices
Addressing breastfeeding in public, at work, jury duty, family law,
mothers in prison, etc.. - Precise Answer ✔✔Breastfeeding Protection
Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program
development and implementation - Precise Answer ✔✔Breastfeeding
Support
,Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Myocardial infarction
Metabolic syndrome
Coronary artery disease
Stroke
DMII
HTN
Hyperlipidemia
Cardiovascular disease
Breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer
Reason #1 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - Precise Answer
✔✔Unrealistic expectations from society about motherhood. Along with
lack of preparation for what the newborn period would be like.
Reason #2 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - Precise Answer
✔✔Lack of timely interventions. Mother's problems at 3-7 days posed
the greatest risk for stopping which is when they are home from the
hospital and alone with no support. The fastest drop-off is in the first 10
days following discharge from the hospital
The International Code of Marketing of Breast milk Substitutions -
Precise Answer ✔✔An international health policy framework to
regulate the marketing of breast milk substitutes in order to protect
breastfeeding. It was written in response to the marketing activities of
, the infant feeding industry which were promoting formula feeding over
breastfeeding, which in turn was leading to a dramatic increase in
maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.
What does "The Code" do? - Precise Answer ✔✔Regulates the
marketing of breast milk substitutes which includes infant formulas and
any other food or drink, together with feeding bottles, and teats, intended
for babies and young children. Sets standards for the labeling and quality
of products and for how the law should be implemented and monitored
within countries. Aims to make sure that parental choices on feeding are
based on full, impartial information, rather than misleading, inaccurate
or biased marketing claims.
The Global Strategy for Infant & Young Child Feeding - Precise Answer
✔✔Is intended as a guide for action; it identifies interventions with a
proven positive impact, it emphasizes providing mothers and families
the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly
defines the obligations and responsibilities in this regard of
governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.
What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Caregiver and societal beliefs favoring mixed
feedings (believing that breast milk is not enough or that babies
actions/issues are related to the breast milk/breastfeeding)
Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of
breastfeeding
Lack of adequate skilled support
Aggressive promotion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes
rather than promoting support for breastfeeding
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