A family affair: getting dad involved.

<p>Greiner T. A family affair: getting dad involved. Pathways to Family Wellness 6:22-23, 2005. Ideas mainly for how fathers can better support breastfeeding.</p

Breastfeeding and working women: thinking strategically

<p>This 1990 paper, presented at a conference in Brazil preparatory to the Innocenti meeting from a "devil's advocate" point of view, many problems with providing maternity protection to breastfeeding women. It is necessary for advocates to be aware of these issues; indeed, knowing them may have contributed to the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action's success in strengthening the ILO Maternity Protection convention in 2000 in the face of opposition from the ILO and many participating countries.</p

A preliminary report of a positive outcome of a breastfeeding promotion in Ibb, Yemen Arab Republic

<p>This presents a bit of the data included in my PhD thesis. (PhD Dissertation (monograph): The Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of a Project to Protect, Support and Promote Breastfeeding in the Yemen Arab Republic. Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 1983.) It shows how, in the one city where the project concentrated its efforts (other components were national in orientation), the duration of "any" breastfeeding increased, compared to stagnation in an area where it has been promoted earlier and decline in an area where safe bottle feeding was being promoted. </p

It is time to start defining breastfeeding properly in HIV research

<p>This is a scanned version of Greiner T. It is time to start defining breastfeeding properly in HIV research. Electronic letter dated 5 Sept 1999, commenting on: S Gottlieb. Vertical transmission of HIV though breast milk most likely to occur soon after birth. British Medical Journal 319:594d, 1999. It focused on the importance of the recent finding that exclusive breastfeeding was protective. </p

A solution for vitamin A deficiency

<p>Draft: Greiner T. A solution for vitamin A deficiency. Solutions for a sustainable and desirable future. 5(2):93-99, July 2014.</p> <p>The final paper including illustrations is at:</p> <p>http://thesolutionsjournal.org/node/237180</p

The Zambian National Nutrition Surveillance Programme: an Assessment

<p>Greiner T. The Zambian National Nutrition Surveillance Programme: an Assessment. SIDA Consultant Report. May, 1986.</p

Food-based approaches for combating malnutrition – lessons lost?

<p>Greiner T. Food-based approaches for combating malnutrition – lessons lost. IN: Thomson B. and Amororso L. Improving Diets and Nutrition: Food-based Approaches. Rome: FAO and CABI, 2014, pp 32-44.</p

Do we now have some real solutions for young child malnutrition?

<p>This scanned chapter is from Improving Young Child Feeding in Eastern and Southern Africa. Alnwick E, Moses S, Schmidt OG (Eds.) Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1988, pp. 2-6.It focuses on the potential of germinated and fermented foods to solve complementary feeding problems in low income countries. </p

The role of health services research in the implementation of breastfeeding as a family planning method

<p>This paper, on pp 14-20 of this WHO report, was written and presented in 1986 before there was any widespread awareness of or agreement regarding the lactation amenorrhea method of family planning. It points out that for many women, modern methods are either not available, or forbidden by religion, or family members. Training them in the importance of exclusive breastfeeding could help substantially in spacing their babies. </p

Dose-response, cause and effect relation between breast feeding and heart disease seems unlikely

<p>Greiner T. Dose-response, cause and effect relation between breast feeding and heart disease seems unlikely. British Medical Journal 323:690, 22 Sept 2001.</p> <p>The media loves to trumpet all research seeming to show something harmful linked to breastfeeding. This one found a positive relationship between (the in any case very short) duration of breastfeeding in the UK and heart disease. This letter emphasizes how unlikely this is to be cause and effect.  </p