This article's aim is to review the literature on racial and ethnic disparities in breastfeeding
rates and practices, address barriers to breastfeeding among minority women, conduct a …

Background In the US, strong ethnic/racial, socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic
breastfeeding (BF) inequities persist, and African American and Hispanic women are less …

Introduction Although breastfeeding has been shown to improve health outcomes for infants,
African American women initiate and continue breastfeeding at lower rates than women from …

The gap between current breastfeeding practices and the Healthy People 2020
breastfeeding goals is widest for black women compared with all other ethnic groups. Also of …

Marked racial and ethnic disparities exist in infant feeding in the United States. Based on a
review of recent literature, this article examines current discrepancies between the 2020 …

Background: Breastfeeding is protective of maternal and infant health across the life course.
Increasing breastfeeding rates in Black communities is an important public health strategy to …

Despite the well documented health benefits of breastfeeding (1), initiation of breastfeeding
and breastfeeding duration rates among black infants in the United States are approximately …

OBJECTIVE. Patterns of breastfeeding vary considerably across different racial/ethnic
groups; however, little is known about factors that might explain differences across and …

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Breastfeeding Initiation ─ United States, 2019 | MMWR Skip
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Background: Disparities in breastfeeding (BF) continue to be a public health challenge, as
currently only 42% of infants in the world and 25.6% of infants in the United States are …