Sonia Hernández‐Cordero
Biographic Data
| ID | 7738949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Hernández‐Cordero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hernández‐Cordero |
| SIGNATURE | CORDERO S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ibero American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2209-0962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of the United States’ distancing from the UN and withholding WHO funding on maternal and child health and nutrition in the Latin America & Caribbean region
This commentary examines the serious implications of the United States’ (US) decision to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) system for maternal and child health and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The region has made significant progress in reducing maternal and infant mortality through coordinated efforts led by WHO, PAHO, and other UN agencies, as an example, infant mortalit…
Mapping Stakeholders in Mexico's Maternal and Child Health Network
Maternal and child health care consists of providing quality care for the dyad mother-child, starting with prenatal care, early postpartum, and monitoring the growth and development of children during their first 1000 days of life. Maternal and child malnutrition remains a critical public health concern in Mexico, and it is still far from reaching the Global Nutrition Targets, particularly those corresponding to stunting, low birth weight, anemia…
The role of nutrition-sensitive interventions in improving nutritional outcomes
Our review protocols were pre-registered at AIR.org [ https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/Synthesis-of-evidence-nutrition-sensitive-interventions-maternal-childrens-nutrition-outcomes-research-protocol-Nov-2023.pdf ] and PROSPERO [ https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42024552449 ]
Low quality of maternal and child nutritional care at the primary care in Mexico
These findings underscore the need for initiatives to improve the quality of nutritional care in PC facilities across Chihuahua, State of Mexico, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatan. It is necessary for government and health authorities, along with various stakeholders, to collaboratively devise, implement, and assess intercultural and gender-oriented policies and programs geared towards ensuring the health infrastructure and enhancing the tra…
Breastfeeding among women employed in Mexico’s informal sector
Women employed in Mexico's informal sector face a dearth of maternity protections. According to key informants, few policies exist to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding among employed women, in general, but the economic vulnerability and challenging working conditions of women in informal employment exacerbates their situation. The lack of access to formal labor protections, such as paid maternity leave, creates a significant barrier to …
Commercial milk formula marketing entry points
The cases in our study highlight how, together with a weak breastfeeding counseling system, and health professionals who lack training in breastfeeding and normal infant behavior, lead to the opportunity for CMF marketing to shape infant feeding, and ultimately to the decision to feed formulas that some mothers were not planning to use and cannot afford
Breastfeeding
In this Series paper, we examine how mother and baby attributes at the individual level interact with breastfeeding determinants at other levels, how these interactions drive breastfeeding outcomes, and what policies and interventions are necessary to achieve optimal breastfeeding. About one in three neonates in low-income and middle-income countries receive prelacteal feeds, and only one in two neonates are put to the breast within the first hou…
An analysis of actors participating in the design and implementation of workplace breastfeeding interventions in Mexico using the NetMap analysis approach
Introduction: While breastfeeding is recognized as providing optimal nutrition for infants and toddlers, maternal employment is a commonly mentioned barrier to breastfeeding. The goal was to (a) identify key actors participating in the design and implementation of workplace breastfeeding interventions in Mexico, (b) understand the complexity of interactions between the actors, and (c) map the connections and influence between the actors when look…
Healthcare professionals and commercial milk formula recommendations in the urban Mexican context
Introduction: Breastfeeding (BF) is considered an essential component of optimal care for child health and development. In the past two decades, global data have shown improvements in some, but not all, BF indicators. Despite these positive changes sales and per capita intake of commercial milk formula (CMF) have increased globally. The CMF industry invests millions of dollars in marketing, which targets families and healthcare professionals (HCP…
Legislation on marketing of breast-milk substitutes in digital and social media
Innovative and continuously changing methods of digital marketing are routinely used to reach young women and their families with advertisements that normalise infant artificial feeding and undermine breastfeeding. Legislation and provisions regulating digital and social media marketing are limited across countries. The aim of this scoping review was to systematically identify and summarise worldwide legislation implemented to regulate breast-mil…
Countries' experiences scaling up national breastfeeding, protection, promotion and support programmes
Scaling up effective interventions, policies and programmes can improve breastfeeding (BF) outcomes. Furthermore, considerable interest exists in learning from relatively recent successful efforts that can inform further scaling up, with appropriate adaptations, across countries. The purpose of this four-country case studies analysis was to examine why and how improvements in BF practices occurred across four contrasting countries; Burkina Faso, …
Follow‐up and growing‐up formula promotion among Mexican pregnant women and mothers of children under 18 months old
Milk formula sales have grown globally, particularly through follow-up formulas (FUF) and growing-up milks (GUM). Marketing strategies and weak regulatory and institutional arrangements are important contributors to caregivers' decisions about child feeding choices. This study describes maternal awareness, beliefs, and normative referents of FUFs and GUMs among Mexican pregnant women and mothers of children 0-18 months (n = 1044) through the lens…
Implementation of Breastfeeding Policies at Workplace in Mexico
Return to work is one of the most significant barriers to breastfeeding (BF). Family-friendly policies are critical to ensure that BF and maternal work are not mutually exclusive. This study aims to determine contextual factors and underlying mechanisms influencing the implementation of workplace policies in Mexico. Following a qualitative approach, the study was conducted in the following four cities in Mexico: Mérida, Chihuahua, Guadalajara, an…
Violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes
The marketing of formula milk as a substitute for breast milk continues to be ubiquitous and multifaceted despite passage by the World Health Assembly of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) in 1981. In this paper, we summarized reports of the Code violations from eight studies using the WHO/UNICEF NetCode protocol. Among 3,124 pregnant women and mothers with young children, in eight countries, 64% reported ex…
Violations of the I nternational C ode of M arketing of B reast‐milk S ubstitutes in M exico
This study estimated the prevalence of violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS) and subsequent resolutions of the World Health Assembly (Code) at health facilities, points of sale (POS), and on BMS labelling and media in Mexico. We carried out a cross-sectional survey among 693 mothers with children aged less than 24 months and 48 health providers at public and private health facilities in two states of M…
Comparing a 7-day diary vs. 24 h-recall for estimating fluid consumption in overweight and obese Mexican women
Overall, the 7-day diary showed high and strong rank correlations with that reported in the 24-h recall, suggesting that the diary method is a valid dietary tool to evaluate total fluid, water and SSB intake in this population
The Associations of Maternal Weight Change with Breastfeeding, Diet and Physical Activity During the Postpartum Period
Stakeholder perspectives on national policy for regulating the school food environment in Mexico
In Mexico, the school environment has been promoting sale of unhealthy foods. There is little empirical evidence on multi-stakeholder perspectives around national school food policy to regulate this. We studied stakeholders' perspectives on the proposed regulation for school sale of unhealthy foods. Comments about the regulation were available from an open consultation process held in June 2010 before the approval and implementation of the regula…
Stakeholder perspectives on national policy for regulating the school food environment in Mexico
In Mexico, the school environment has been promoting sale of unhealthy foods. There is little empirical evidence on multi-stakeholder perspectives around national school food policy to regulate this. We studied stakeholders' perspectives on the proposed regulation for school sale of unhealthy foods. Comments about the regulation were available from an open consultation process held in June 2010 before the approval and implementation of the regula…
Comparing a 7-day diary vs. 24 h-recall for estimating fluid consumption in overweight and obese Mexican women
Overall, the 7-day diary showed high and strong rank correlations with that reported in the 24-h recall, suggesting that the diary method is a valid dietary tool to evaluate total fluid, water and SSB intake in this population
The Associations of Maternal Weight Change with Breastfeeding, Diet and Physical Activity During the Postpartum Period
Stakeholder perspectives on national policy for regulating the school food environment in Mexico
In Mexico, the school environment has been promoting sale of unhealthy foods. There is little empirical evidence on multi-stakeholder perspectives around national school food policy to regulate this. We studied stakeholders' perspectives on the proposed regulation for school sale of unhealthy foods. Comments about the regulation were available from an open consultation process held in June 2010 before the approval and implementation of the regula…
Violations of the I nternational C ode of M arketing of B reast‐milk S ubstitutes in M exico
This study estimated the prevalence of violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (BMS) and subsequent resolutions of the World Health Assembly (Code) at health facilities, points of sale (POS), and on BMS labelling and media in Mexico. We carried out a cross-sectional survey among 693 mothers with children aged less than 24 months and 48 health providers at public and private health facilities in two states of M…
Countries' experiences scaling up national breastfeeding, protection, promotion and support programmes
Scaling up effective interventions, policies and programmes can improve breastfeeding (BF) outcomes. Furthermore, considerable interest exists in learning from relatively recent successful efforts that can inform further scaling up, with appropriate adaptations, across countries. The purpose of this four-country case studies analysis was to examine why and how improvements in BF practices occurred across four contrasting countries; Burkina Faso, …
Follow‐up and growing‐up formula promotion among Mexican pregnant women and mothers of children under 18 months old
Milk formula sales have grown globally, particularly through follow-up formulas (FUF) and growing-up milks (GUM). Marketing strategies and weak regulatory and institutional arrangements are important contributors to caregivers' decisions about child feeding choices. This study describes maternal awareness, beliefs, and normative referents of FUFs and GUMs among Mexican pregnant women and mothers of children 0-18 months (n = 1044) through the lens…
Implementation of Breastfeeding Policies at Workplace in Mexico
Return to work is one of the most significant barriers to breastfeeding (BF). Family-friendly policies are critical to ensure that BF and maternal work are not mutually exclusive. This study aims to determine contextual factors and underlying mechanisms influencing the implementation of workplace policies in Mexico. Following a qualitative approach, the study was conducted in the following four cities in Mexico: Mérida, Chihuahua, Guadalajara, an…
Violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes
The marketing of formula milk as a substitute for breast milk continues to be ubiquitous and multifaceted despite passage by the World Health Assembly of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) in 1981. In this paper, we summarized reports of the Code violations from eight studies using the WHO/UNICEF NetCode protocol. Among 3,124 pregnant women and mothers with young children, in eight countries, 64% reported ex…
Breastfeeding
In this Series paper, we examine how mother and baby attributes at the individual level interact with breastfeeding determinants at other levels, how these interactions drive breastfeeding outcomes, and what policies and interventions are necessary to achieve optimal breastfeeding. About one in three neonates in low-income and middle-income countries receive prelacteal feeds, and only one in two neonates are put to the breast within the first hou…
An analysis of actors participating in the design and implementation of workplace breastfeeding interventions in Mexico using the NetMap analysis approach
Introduction: While breastfeeding is recognized as providing optimal nutrition for infants and toddlers, maternal employment is a commonly mentioned barrier to breastfeeding. The goal was to (a) identify key actors participating in the design and implementation of workplace breastfeeding interventions in Mexico, (b) understand the complexity of interactions between the actors, and (c) map the connections and influence between the actors when look…
Healthcare professionals and commercial milk formula recommendations in the urban Mexican context
Introduction: Breastfeeding (BF) is considered an essential component of optimal care for child health and development. In the past two decades, global data have shown improvements in some, but not all, BF indicators. Despite these positive changes sales and per capita intake of commercial milk formula (CMF) have increased globally. The CMF industry invests millions of dollars in marketing, which targets families and healthcare professionals (HCP…
Legislation on marketing of breast-milk substitutes in digital and social media
Innovative and continuously changing methods of digital marketing are routinely used to reach young women and their families with advertisements that normalise infant artificial feeding and undermine breastfeeding. Legislation and provisions regulating digital and social media marketing are limited across countries. The aim of this scoping review was to systematically identify and summarise worldwide legislation implemented to regulate breast-mil…
Low quality of maternal and child nutritional care at the primary care in Mexico
These findings underscore the need for initiatives to improve the quality of nutritional care in PC facilities across Chihuahua, State of Mexico, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatan. It is necessary for government and health authorities, along with various stakeholders, to collaboratively devise, implement, and assess intercultural and gender-oriented policies and programs geared towards ensuring the health infrastructure and enhancing the tra…
Breastfeeding among women employed in Mexico’s informal sector
Women employed in Mexico's informal sector face a dearth of maternity protections. According to key informants, few policies exist to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding among employed women, in general, but the economic vulnerability and challenging working conditions of women in informal employment exacerbates their situation. The lack of access to formal labor protections, such as paid maternity leave, creates a significant barrier to …
Commercial milk formula marketing entry points
The cases in our study highlight how, together with a weak breastfeeding counseling system, and health professionals who lack training in breastfeeding and normal infant behavior, lead to the opportunity for CMF marketing to shape infant feeding, and ultimately to the decision to feed formulas that some mothers were not planning to use and cannot afford
Mapping Stakeholders in Mexico's Maternal and Child Health Network
Maternal and child health care consists of providing quality care for the dyad mother-child, starting with prenatal care, early postpartum, and monitoring the growth and development of children during their first 1000 days of life. Maternal and child malnutrition remains a critical public health concern in Mexico, and it is still far from reaching the Global Nutrition Targets, particularly those corresponding to stunting, low birth weight, anemia…
The role of nutrition-sensitive interventions in improving nutritional outcomes
Our review protocols were pre-registered at AIR.org [ https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/Synthesis-of-evidence-nutrition-sensitive-interventions-maternal-childrens-nutrition-outcomes-research-protocol-Nov-2023.pdf ] and PROSPERO [ https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42024552449 ]
The impact of the United States’ distancing from the UN and withholding WHO funding on maternal and child health and nutrition in the Latin America & Caribbean region
This commentary examines the serious implications of the United States’ (US) decision to withdraw funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) system for maternal and child health and nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The region has made significant progress in reducing maternal and infant mortality through coordinated efforts led by WHO, PAHO, and other UN agencies, as an example, infant mortalit…
Medicine (15 works) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (14 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Breastfeeding (11 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Public health (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (7 works) · Pediatrics (7 works) · Political science (6 works)