Infant and young child feeding counselling: an integrated course. Director's guide

Download or read book Infant and young child feeding counselling: an integrated course. Director's guide written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breastfeeding and appropriate, safe and timely complementary feeding are fundamental to the health and development of children, and important for the health of their mothers. All health workers who care for women and children during the postnatal period and beyond have a key role to play in establishing and sustaining breastfeeding and appropriate complementary feeding. This guide, which is an update of the version published in 2005, enables course directors to create a customized training package that will respond directly to the specific learning needs of their health workers. The training modules cover a range of topics, including breastfeeding, complementary feeding, growth assessment and monitoring, HIV and infant feeding, and infant and young child feeding counselling.