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Maternal and Child Health Breastfeeding Rates

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

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The Victorian Government is committed to improving the health and development of children and recognises that breastfeeding plays an important role in achieving this outcome.  The Maternal and Child Health Service actively promotes breastfeeding to all new mothers and collects annual data to monitor the efficacy of this initiative. The breastfeeding rate is calculated as the number of mother’s breastfeeding at discharge, at 2 weeks, at 3 months and at 6 months, as a percentage of the total number of registered infants aged 1-2 years (Classified as full or partial according to the World Health Organisation definitions).

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Title Maternal and Child Health Breastfeeding Rates
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/dc3e07e4-d1aa-470b-986e-fdbebf92cd00
Remote Last Updated 17/12/2024
Contact Point
Department of Health and Human Services
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 15/07/2019
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

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This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Maternal and Child Health Breastfeeding Rates". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/maternal-and-child-health-breastfeeding-rates