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Breastfeeding Initiation and Continuation by Infant Age and Birth Year, New Jersey, 2009 to 2020
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Why Is This Important?
Breastfeeding is the best source of nutrition for most infants. It can also reduce the risk for some short- and long-term health conditions for both infants and mothers.[https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/php/about/index.html ^1^]
Definition
Proportion of infants who are breastfed at certain ages
Data Notes
This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 Objective MCH-7.Data Source
Breastfeeding Report Card, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/data/reportcard.htm)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of infants who are breastfed at certain agesDenominator:
Total number of infants of a certain age
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective MICH-15
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed exclusively through age 6 months to 42.4 percent by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/pregnancy-and-childbirth
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective MICH-21.1
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of infants who are ever breastfed to 81.9 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-healthHealthy People 2020 Objective MICH-21.4
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed exclusively through 3 months to 46.2 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-healthHealthy People 2020 Objective MICH-21.5
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed exclusively through 6 months to 25.5 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-7a
NJ Target: Increase the proportion of infants ever breastfed to 85 percent by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtmlHealthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-7b
NJ Target: Increase the proportion of infants exclusively breastfeeding through 3 months to 45 percent by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtmlHealthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-7c
NJ Target: Increase the proportion of infants exclusively breastfeeding through 6 months to 25.5 percent by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtml
Health Initiative: CDI
Chronic Disease Indicator NPW11
Description: Infants who were exclusively breastfed through 6 months
https://www.cdc.gov/cdi/indicator-definitions/npao.html