Healthy Lives, Healthy Community

Objectives of Breastfeeding Coalition

Objectives

1.     Increase Champaign and Logan Counties breastfeeding/chest feeding duration rates to meet Healthy People 2030 goal of 42.4% exclusively breastfeeding through 6 months.

2.     Increase breastfeeding/chest feeding as a health care intervention and disease prevention strategy in the state of Ohio, as it relates to infectious disease, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancers, etc.

3.     Protect lactation as a natural civil right of parents, babies, and families.

4.     Increase knowledge of the evidence-based role of breastfeeding/chest feeding in infant and maternal health, and the biological role of lactation in nurturing children