Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland: report

Scotland's results and the key recommendations for the continued protection, promotion and support for breastfeeding.


Footnotes

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3. Pérez‐Escamilla et al (2018) Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly Index: Development and application for scaling‐up breastfeeding programmes globally. Matern Child Nutr. 2018;e12596.

4. Information Services Division Scotland (2018) Infant Feeding Statistics Scotland. Financial Year of Birth 2017/18

5. See Annex 01 for the Benchmarks for each Gear in the BBF Model

6. See Annex 02 for the BBF Scoring Methodology

7. Rollins et al (2016) Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? Lancet vol 387 (10017):491-504.

8. Scottish Government (2017) Scottish maternal and infant nutrition survey 2017

9. Rollins et al (2016) Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? Lancet vol 387 (10017):491-504.

10. Scottish Government (2011) Improving maternal and infant nutrition: a framework for action.

11. Scottish Government. Breastfeeding Programme for Government 2018-19

12. Scottish Government (2018) A healthier future: Scotland's diet and healthy weight delivery plan

13. Pérez-Escamilla et al (2012) Scaling Up of Breastfeeding Promotion Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: the "Breastfeeding Gear" Model. American Society for Nutrition. Adv. Nutr. 3: 790-800, 2012

14. Unicef and WHO (2015) Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative. For The Best Start In Life

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20. Scottish Government (2018) A healthier future: Scotland's diet and healthy weight delivery plan

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22. Scottish Government (2018) Scottish maternal and infant nutrition survey 2017

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27. Global Breastfeeding Collective (2017) Nurturing the Health and Wealth of Nations: The Investment Case for Breastfeeding

28. Carroll et al (2018) Perspective: What Will It Cost to Scale-up Breastfeeding Programs? A Comparison of Current Global Costing Methodologies.

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36. Lawton et al (2012) Employing an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour to predict breastfeeding intention, initiation, and maintenance in White British and South-Asian mothers living in Bradford. Br J Health Psychol 2012; 17: 854-71.

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40. ILO C183 - Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183). Convention concerning the revision of the Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 (Entry into force: 07 Feb 2002)

41. ILO Maternity Protection Resource Package (2012) Module 10

42. Roe et al (1999) Is there competition between breast-feeding and maternal employment? Demography 1999; 36: 157-71. Cited in Rollins et al (2016)

43. Visness & Kennedy (1997). Maternal employment and breast-feeding: findings from the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Am J Public Health 1997; 87: 945-50.

44. International Labour Organization (2014) Maternity and paternity at work: Law and practice across the world. Geneva: International Labour Organization. Cited in Rollins et al (2016)

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48. Scottish Government Gender equality in the workplace. Pregnancy and maternity discrimination.

49. The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Regulations 2012

50. Equality and Human Rights Commission (2016) Pregnancy and maternity discrimination in the workplace: Recommendations for Change

51. Maternity Action (2014) Accommodating breastfeeding

52. Maternity Action (2018) Continuing to breastfeed when you return to work.

53. EHRC (2017) Employer toolkits: Understanding your responsibilities if your employee is expecting a baby

54. Scottish Business Pledge. Balanced Workforce.

55. Scottish Government. Gender Equality policy: Ensuring fairer workplaces for women

56. Equality Challenge unit (2018) Athena SWAN is an initiative of the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), which works to further and support equality and diversity for staff and students in higher education institutions across all four nations of the UK and in colleges in Scotland.

57. Save the Children (2018) Don't push it: Why the formula industry must clean up its act

58. WHO (1981) International code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes. Geneva: World Health Organization; 1981.

59. UNCRC: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

60. WHO, IBFAN and UNICEF (2018) Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: national implementation of the international code, status report 2018.

61. The Notification of Marketing of Food for Particular Nutritional Uses (Scotland) Regulations 2007
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62. The Foods for Specific Groups (Scotland) Regulations 2016
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63. WHO, IBFAN and UNICEF (2018) Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: national implementation of the international code, status report 2018.

64. Unicef UK (2016) A Call to Action on Breastfeeding

65. Scottish Government (2011) Improving Maternal and infant and Nutrition: A Framework for Action

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81. Lancet (2016) Breastfeeding series.

82. ILO C183 - Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183). Convention concerning the revision of the Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 (Entry into force: 07 Feb 2002)

83. Citizens Advice Scotland. Equality Act 2010. Sex discrimination.

84. Equality and Human Rights Commission (2015) Pregnancy and Maternity-Related Discrimination and Disadvantage First findings: Surveys of Employers and Mothers.

85. Maternity Action (2016). Breastfeeding at work. EasyJet case

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