Health care expenditures have increased dramatically from 5% to 13.5% of the Gross
Domestic Product of the United States since 1960.16 As a result, more attention has focused …

Abstract A minimum of $3.6 billion would be saved if breastfeeding were increased from
current levels (64 percent in-hospital, 29 percent at 6 months) to those recommended by the …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A 2001 study revealed that 3.6billioncouldbesavedifbreastfeedingrateswer…
.Itstudied3diseasesandtotaleddirectandindir….The2001studycanbeupdatedbyusingcurrent …

Breastfeeding, a valuable natural resource, promotes health, helps prevent infant and
childhood disease, and saves health care costs. Additional annual national health care …

To develop a framework, using Louisiana as a case study, for estimating the potential cost
savings to individual states if families were able to meet current recommendations for …

Background: A recent study showed that current suboptimal US breastfeeding rates cost the
US economy 13billionperyearin2007dollarsforpediatrich….Costdataofexcessmaternaldiseasearenotye …

Objective. To determine the excess cost of health care services for three illnesses in formula-
fed infants in the first year of life, after adjusting for potential confounders. Methods …

In 1968, Lee Forrest Hill 1 observed that" formula feeding has become so simple, safe, and
uniformly successful that breast-feeding no longer seems worth the bother." His comments …

Increasing breastfeeding rates is a national priority because of the health, psychosocial, and
economic benefits accrued by families and society. 1–3 The American Academy of …

The aim of this study was to quantify the excess cases of pediatric and maternal disease,
death, and costs attributable to suboptimal breastfeeding rates in the United States. Using …