Melissa C Bartick
Biographic Data
| ID | 7581413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa C Bartick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartick |
| SIGNATURE | BARTICK M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cambridge Health Alliance |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1287-3883 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Maternity Care Deserts
The economic cost consequences of suboptimal infant and young child feeding practices
Breastfeeding is important for women and children’s health, but less than half of infants worldwide begin life with optimal breastfeeding. A growing literature shows consistently large economic costs of not breastfeeding, with global studies showing economic losses of around US$300 billion globally. However, existing studies are highly diverse in approaches, methods, data sources and country results. Building on a landmark 2012 UNICEF UK review f…
Shared decision‐making for infant feeding and care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic
Despite decades of research establishing the importance of breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact and mother-infant closeness, the response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underscored the hidden assumption that these practices can be dispensed with no consequences to mother or child. This article aims to support shared decision-making process for infant feeding and care with parents and health care providers during the unprec…
Sudden infant death and social justice
Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prevention has focused on modifying individual behavioural risk factors, especially bedsharing. Yet these deaths are most common among poor and marginalized people in wealthy countries, including U.S. Blacks, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, New Zealand Māori, Australian Aborigines, indigenous Canadians, and low-income British people. The United States now has the worl…
Suboptimal breastfeeding in the United States
The aim of this study was to quantify the excess cases of pediatric and maternal disease, death, and costs attributable to suboptimal breastfeeding rates in the United States. Using the current literature on the associations between breastfeeding and health outcomes for nine pediatric and five maternal diseases, we created Monte Carlo simulations modeling a hypothetical cohort of U.S. women followed from age 15 to age 70 years and their children …
Breastfeeding and Health
Some commentators have claimed that breastfeeding benefits are overstated or that breastfeeding is not the cause of the improved health outcomes. In 2007, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) issued a definitive report summarizing the body of evidence on various maternal and infant health outcomes in developed countries. The weight of this and subsequent evidence supports an association between breastfeeding and health outcomes i…
The Burden of Suboptimal Breastfeeding in the United States
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A 2001 study revealed that $3.6 billion could be saved if breastfeeding rates were increased to levels of the Healthy People objectives. It studied 3 diseases and totaled direct and indirect costs and cost of premature death. The 2001 study can be updated by using current breastfeeding rates and adding additional diseases analyzed in the 2007 breastfeeding report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. STUDY…
Policies and Practices Related to Breastfeeding in Massachusetts
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Policies and Practices Related to Breastfeeding in Massachusetts
The Burden of Suboptimal Breastfeeding in the United States
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A 2001 study revealed that $3.6 billion could be saved if breastfeeding rates were increased to levels of the Healthy People objectives. It studied 3 diseases and totaled direct and indirect costs and cost of premature death. The 2001 study can be updated by using current breastfeeding rates and adding additional diseases analyzed in the 2007 breastfeeding report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. STUDY…
Breastfeeding and Health
Some commentators have claimed that breastfeeding benefits are overstated or that breastfeeding is not the cause of the improved health outcomes. In 2007, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) issued a definitive report summarizing the body of evidence on various maternal and infant health outcomes in developed countries. The weight of this and subsequent evidence supports an association between breastfeeding and health outcomes i…
Suboptimal breastfeeding in the United States
The aim of this study was to quantify the excess cases of pediatric and maternal disease, death, and costs attributable to suboptimal breastfeeding rates in the United States. Using the current literature on the associations between breastfeeding and health outcomes for nine pediatric and five maternal diseases, we created Monte Carlo simulations modeling a hypothetical cohort of U.S. women followed from age 15 to age 70 years and their children …
Sudden infant death and social justice
Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prevention has focused on modifying individual behavioural risk factors, especially bedsharing. Yet these deaths are most common among poor and marginalized people in wealthy countries, including U.S. Blacks, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, New Zealand Māori, Australian Aborigines, indigenous Canadians, and low-income British people. The United States now has the worl…
Shared decision‐making for infant feeding and care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic
Despite decades of research establishing the importance of breastfeeding, skin-to-skin contact and mother-infant closeness, the response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has underscored the hidden assumption that these practices can be dispensed with no consequences to mother or child. This article aims to support shared decision-making process for infant feeding and care with parents and health care providers during the unprec…
The economic cost consequences of suboptimal infant and young child feeding practices
Breastfeeding is important for women and children’s health, but less than half of infants worldwide begin life with optimal breastfeeding. A growing literature shows consistently large economic costs of not breastfeeding, with global studies showing economic losses of around US$300 billion globally. However, existing studies are highly diverse in approaches, methods, data sources and country results. Building on a landmark 2012 UNICEF UK review f…
Maternity Care Deserts
Breastfeeding (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Pediatrics (5 works) · Breast feeding (4 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works)