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Let's Talk Breastfeeding: Enhancing Health Equity in Breastfeeding: Exploring Cultural Influences and Opportunities to Increase Breastfeeding Support

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

This training is primarily directed to Primary Care Physicians, office staff, and hospital staff.

Educational Objectives:

At the conclusion of this presentation you should be able to:

  • Identify cultural barriers that impact breastfeeding practice and rates.
  • Describe strategies for self-awareness regarding daily encounters with clients and breastfeeding individuals
  • Apply principles of cultural humility to lactation support practices.


Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Sponsor Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME) The University of Pittsburgh designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Suggested Additional Reading:
  1. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy, Ph.D
  2. How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  3. The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals Allers
  4. Medical Apartheid- The Dark History of Medical Experiementation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Authors:
Debra Bogen, MD — Director of the Allegheny County Health Department, Pittsburgh, PA
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Dottie Schell, BS, RN, CLC — Program Director, Breastfeeding Programs, Pennsylvania Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Ngozi D. Tibbs, MPH, IBCLC, LCCE, CHC — Lactation Counselor at HEALTHY START based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
Samantha Pierpoint, BS, CLC — Assistant Program Director, Breastfeeding Programs, PA Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.