Infant feeding and cost of health care: A cohort study

Cattaneo, Adriano; Ronfani, Luca; Burmaz, Tea; Quintero-Romero, Sofia; Macaluso, Anna; Mario, Simona Di

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“…In Cattaneo et al's (2006) study, infants who were exclusively breast fed until 3 months of age had lower healthcare costs per infant per year for ambulatory care and hospital care. Ball and Wright (1999) and Smith et al (2002), and many other studies, found that lack of breast feeding was significantly associated with higher usage and cost of healthcare services (Ball and Wright, 1999;Smith et al, 2002;Kramer et al, 2003;Abolyan, 2006;Ramani and Ambalavanan, 2013).…”

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“…The World Health Organization (WHO) endorses breast feeding as the most efficient nutritional practice for the health and well-being of preterm infants (WHO/UNICEF, 1990, 1992. Indeed, breast feeding reduces hospitalisation costs by providing active protection for LBW infants against a number of serious morbidities (Rogowski, 1998;Ball and Wright, 1999;Smith et al, 2002;Cattaneo et al, 2006). The recommendation to feed LBW infants predominantly with their mother's milk from the first hour of life, followed by breast feeding, is supported by most research.…”

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Mother's breast milk supplemented with donor milk reduces hospital and health service usage costs in low-birthweight infants

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Mother's breast milk supplemented with donor milk reduces hospital and health service usage costs in low-birthweight infants

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“…However, exclusive lactation during the first 6 months of a child's life, has the potential to reduce out-of-pocket household expenditures on healthcare (Cattaneo et al, 2006), which is important given that 24% of household in Ecuador live below the poverty line (Bertoli & Marchetta, 2014;INEC-DIPES, 2010). It was reported that in the United Stated exclusive lactation can save up to $1000 USD per family per year due to the savings accrued by not buying artificial infant formula (Schanler, 2015).…”

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Artificial Infant Formula Consumption and Breastfeeding Trends in Ecuador, A Population-Based Analysis from 2007 to 2014

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Stewart-Ibarra²,

Ramirez³

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Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze trends in infant breastfeeding and artificial infant milk consumption in Ecuador from 2007 to 2014. Methods:This descriptive observational study includes all the available data collected and adapted from the National Health and Nutrition Survey of Ecuador, ENSANUT, the Ecuadorian National Institute of Census and Statistics, the national report of the International Marketing Services and data from Enfarma EP. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to determine sociodemographic distribution and temporal trends. Results:In Ecuador 54% of children initiate breastfeeding during the first hour of life, and 43% of children aged five months are breastfed exclusively. 76% of children under one month of age and 60% of children under six months consume artificial infant formula. Over the last 8 years infant formula consumption has tripled in Ecuador reaching 59.6 million units sold at a cost of $530,100,000 USD from 2007 to 2014. Conclusions:Breastfeeding practices in Ecuador are not complying with WHO recommendations and infant milk formulas consumption has risen significantly since 2007, despite active campaigns by the public health sector to educate women as to the benefits of breastfeeding.

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“…Breastfeeding also has health benefits for the mother [5], including a reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancer compared to women who do not breastfeed [3]. Breastfeeding is cost saving for the family and the community [6,7]. …”

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Ringing Up about Breastfeeding: a randomised controlled trial exploring early telephone peer support for breastfeeding (RUBY) – trial protocol

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Davey

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BackgroundThe risks of not breastfeeding for mother and infant are well established, yet in Australia, although most women initiate breastfeeding many discontinue breastfeeding altogether and few women exclusively breastfeed to six months as recommended by the World Health Organization and Australian health authorities. We aim to determine whether proactive telephone peer support during the postnatal period increases the proportion of infants who are breastfed at six months, replicating a trial previously found to be effective in Canada.Design/MethodsA two arm randomised controlled trial will be conducted, recruiting primiparous women who have recently given birth to a live baby, are proficient in English and are breastfeeding or intending to breastfeed. Women will be recruited in the postnatal wards of three hospitals in Melbourne, Australia and will be randomised to peer support or to ‘usual’ care. All women recruited to the trial will receive usual hospital postnatal care and infant feeding support. For the intervention group, peers will make two telephone calls within the first ten days postpartum, then weekly telephone calls until week twelve, with continued contact until six months postpartum. Primary aim: to determine whether postnatal telephone peer support increases the proportion of infants who are breastfed for at least six months. Hypothesis: that telephone peer support in the postnatal period will increase the proportion of infants receiving any breast milk at six months by 10% compared with usual care (from 46% to 56%).Outcome data will be analysed by intention to treat. A supplementary multivariate analysis will be undertaken if there are any baseline differences in the characteristics of women in the two groups which might be associated with the primary outcomes.DiscussionThe costs and health burdens of not breastfeeding fall disproportionately and increasingly on disadvantaged groups. We have therefore deliberately chosen trial sites which have a high proportion of women from disadvantaged backgrounds. This will be the first Australian randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of proactive peer telephone support for breastfeeding.Trial registrationAustralian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12612001024831.

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Infant feeding and cost of health care: A cohort study

Abstract: Lack of breastfeeding and higher use and cost of health care are significantly associated.

Cited by 51 publications

References 19 publications

Mother's breast milk supplemented with donor milk reduces hospital and health service usage costs in low-birthweight infants

Mother's breast milk supplemented with donor milk reduces hospital and health service usage costs in low-birthweight infants

Artificial Infant Formula Consumption and Breastfeeding Trends in Ecuador, A Population-Based Analysis from 2007 to 2014

Ringing Up about Breastfeeding: a randomised controlled trial exploring early telephone peer support for breastfeeding (RUBY) – trial protocol

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