Maternity leave and exclusive breastfeeding [PDF]
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2019 OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association between maternity leave and exclusive breastfeeding and to estimate the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in children under six months of life.
Karina Abibi Rimes +2 more
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Maternity leave access and breastfeeding practices among working mothers in an urban residential area of East Delhi [PDF]
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2021 Background: Despite the provision of maternity leave benefits under the maternity benefit amendment act, its access by working mothers in the community is unknown.
Naudibya Majhi +3 more
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Facilitating transition from maternity leave to work for working mothers: A self-efficacy intervention study [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2023 The return from maternity leave to work is a critical career transition period for working mothers. To help their readaptation to work, we developed and examined a training program for cultivating their work–family balance self-efficacy in a pretest ...
Akiko Kokubo +2 more
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Maternity leave and breastfeeding during COVID: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
International Breastfeeding JournalBackground Maternity leave is an important driver of a woman’s ability to breastfeed, but this association may have changed during the COVID pandemic, which introduced new employment dynamics and breastfeeding challenges for mothers in the workforce. Our
Julianne Miller +2 more
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Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Practices among Working Women with 6 Months of paid Maternity Leave in a Municipal Zone of South West Delhi [PDF]
Indian Journal of Community MedicineThere is a lack of data from India on the effect of paid maternity leave under the Maternity Benefit Amendment Act (2017) on infant feeding practices. The aim was to find out the infant feeding practices among the working mothers who had availed 6 months
Karuna Arya +3 more
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What are the experiences of nurses returning to work following maternity leave: a scoping review [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground There are currently significant concerns regarding the shortage and retention of nurses across the globe. Approximately 90% of the global nursing workforce is currently made up of females, yet there remains a notable absence of literature ...
Elizabeth Johnson +2 more
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The yearly financing need of providing paid maternity leave in the informal sector in Indonesia [PDF]
International Breastfeeding Journal, 2021 Background The economic cost of not breastfeeding in Indonesia is estimated at US$1.5–9.4 billion annually, the highest in South East Asia. Half of the 33.6 million working women of reproductive age (WRA) in Indonesia (15–49 years) are informal employees,
Adiatma Y. M. Siregar +10 more
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Estimating the costs for implementing a maternity leave cash transfer program for women employed in the informal sector in Brazil and Ghana [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background Maternity leave policies are designed to protect gender equality and the health of mothers in the workforce and their children. However, maternity leave schemes are often linked to jobs in the formal sector economy.
Grace Carroll +7 more
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Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: A Qualitative Study of Nurses' Experiences and Factors Influencing Their Retention [PDF]
Nursing OpenAims The aim of this research was to explore the experiences of nurses returning to work following maternity leave and the factors that influence them to stay or leave their positions. Design Descriptive qualitative study.
Elizabeth Johnson +2 more
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The financing need for expanding paid maternity leave to support breastfeeding in the informal sector in the Philippines [PDF]
Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021 In low‐ and middle‐income countries, almost three‐fourths of women in the labour force lack maternity protection. In the Philippines, current laws do not guarantee paid maternity leave to workers in the informal economy. A non‐contributory maternity cash
Valerie Gilbert Ulep +7 more
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