“The doctor said formula would help me”: Health sector influences on use of infant formula in peri-urban Lima, Peru

•Describes rates of unnecessary formula use during infants' first 60 days of life.•Demonstrates how formula companies market products directly to health providers.•Reveals how providers' formula “prescriptions” lead to higher mixed feeding rates.•Describes how poor counseling from nurses h...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2020-01, Vol.244, p.112324-112324, Article 112324
Main Authors: Rothstein, Jessica D., Caulfield, Laura E., Broaddus-Shea, Elena T., Muschelli, John, Gilman, Robert H., Winch, Peter J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Adolescent
Adolescents
Adult
Babies
Baby foods
Best practice
Breast Feeding
Breastfeeding & lactation
Child development
Children
Childrens health
Cognition
Cognitive development
Credibility
Demography
Development strategies
Economic factors
Economic well being
Economic wellbeing
Educational attainment
Employment
Epidemiology
Evidence-Based Practice
Female
Health
Health Facilities - statistics & numerical data
Health promotion
Humans
Individual differences
Infant
Infant Formula - statistics & numerical data
Infant, Newborn
Infants
Informal economy
Intelligence
Interviews as Topic
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Maternal and infant welfare
Maternity & paternity leaves
Mental health services
Morbidity
Mortality
Mothers - statistics & numerical data
Peru
Physicians
Pneumonia
Political economy
Productivity
Psychological aspects
Qualitative research
Urban areas
Urban Population
Vulnerability
Well being
Women
Working mothers
Workplaces
Young Adult
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Summary:•Describes rates of unnecessary formula use during infants' first 60 days of life.•Demonstrates how formula companies market products directly to health providers.•Reveals how providers' formula “prescriptions” lead to higher mixed feeding rates.•Describes how poor counseling from nurses hinders mothers' ability to breastfeed.•Shows the need to improve monitoring of legislation to control formula marketing.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.029